“Asshole”: Serge Gainsbourg's behavior criticized by a famous artist

A famous actress doesn't mince her words about Serge Gainsbourg, whom she remembers meeting in her youth.

© Bestimage Serge Gainsbourg, in the sights of a famous actress

IN BRIEF

• In 2020, Lio criticized Serge Gainsbourg in a podcast, calling him a “stalker”.
• Helena Noguerra shares an uncomfortable experience with Gainsbourg at 15 years, citing inappropriate behavior.
• These testimonies raise questions about Gainsbourg's legacy and his interactions with women.

A monument of French song, Serge Gainsbourg has cultivated the art of provocation. Although she long admired him greatly, Lio no longer looks at the man with the cabbage head in the same way. “Today, I got over Gainsbourg, who is a stalker, quite simply“, the Belgian-Portuguese singer says in an episode of the podcast Transmission broadcast on Arte Radio, in 2020.

This one describes without detour “someone who was not at all cool with girls, and who was a [Harvey] Weinstein, of the song, in a certain way”. The interpreter of Banana Split refuses “necessarily to dub”the man she accuses of having “more than specious behavior towards young women”. She is not the only artist to pin him…

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Serge Gainsbourg: this famous artist who denounces his behavior

Helena Noguerra, Lio's half-sister, also has a mixed memory of her meeting with Serge Gainsbourg à the age of 15. “I wasn't comfortable”, we hear him comment when faced with archive footage unearthed by the teams of the investigative show Complètement d'enquête where we see the singer, then aged 41, hugging and kissing him.

The actress is also outraged by an interview with Charlotte Gainsbourg's father about his collaboration with her in a period report broadcast on TF1. “The journalist said 'Where did you find it ?' And [Serge Gainsbourg] responded with a slang word that I didn't understand – [in the goguenots, which means 'the toilets']”, she recalls, evoking her shock: “I tell myself that it's not possible. I'm leaving, I don't want this circus, I saw that it wasn't going well, I was not happy”.

Serge Gainsbourg: an artist powerless against the singer

Why didn't Helena Noguerra rebuff Serge Gainsbourg ? When she was young, she didn't feel up to telling a particularly influential person off. “&At the time, since he is powerful, I can't say 'Asshole, go fuck off'. So I escape, politely, because a woman's life is often escaping“, laments the one who also targeted Gérard Depardieu.

And to denounce: “This way of an elderly man with a 15 year old girl, there is no regard, no look or consideration… Saying of a young girl that you found her in the toilets, it's not normal!”.