“I pity her”: Jean-Claude Camus not gentle with Laura Smet, why he no longer speaks to her

Seven years after Johnny Hallyday's death, his close friends are still split into two factions. On the set of Chez Jordan on December 5, Jean-Claude Camus responded to Laura Smet's attacks. They won't go on vacation together…

© C8 Jean-Claude Camus on the set of Chez Jordan on December 5, 2024

IN BRIEF

• Jean-Claude Camus and Laura Smet have been in conflict since the death of Johnny Hallyday in 2017
• Jean-Clayde Camus claimed that Johnny Hallyday had wanted to protect his two youngest daughters, Jade and Joy, which sparked a scathing response from Laura Smet on social media.
• The producer insists that Johnny's children have not been disinherited and that the disputes over the inheritance are based on public misunderstandings.

Between Jean-Claude Camus and Laura Smet, the resentment is not new. Since the death of Johnny Hallyday, the historic producer of the Taulier and his eldest daughter have been waging a merciless war. And seven years later, the wind has still not died down. The proof with the words spoken by Jean-Claude Camus on the set of Chez Jordan this Thursday, December 5. “There are two clans. I especially regret for the little ones. They suffer from it, they would like to see their brother David and their sister Laura”, he first regretted about Jade and Joy. The journalist then asked his guest about some very strict words he had said on his set a few years ago.

“Johnny was probably clumsy not to inform them of what he wanted to do to keep the two little ones safe”, Jean-Claude Camus said at the time. At the time, Laura Smet responded to him with a vitriolic message published on her Instagram account. “There's Albert Camus and then there's Jean-Claude Camus… Both wrote The Plague. One with more genius than the other”, she wrote. “There was a debt to my father, that of silence and respect. My legacy is memory. Stop the lies“, concluded the daughter of Johnny Hallyday and Nathalie Baye. Visibly exasperated by this message, Jean-Claude Camus had trouble finding his words. “I feel sorry for her! I really feel sorry for her. I'm not going to dwell on the subject but I feel sorry for her”, he reacted, for once not very talkative. And Jordan de Luxe tried to get the truth out of him.

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Jean-Claude Camus: “things that don't affect me anymore”

“She knows what she's talking about, but hey… She doesn't want to hear all the news”, Johnny Hallyday's producer said. When know what he would say to her if she were in front of him, his answer is clear: “I think that unfortunately there is nothing to say to her. When we are wound up like this… Pfff”. Seven years after Johnny's death, Laeticia Hallyday's close friend assures that this kind of quarrel does not affect him anymore. “You know, these are things that don't affect me anymore”, he concluded on this subject.

Laura Smet and Jean-Claude Camus disagree in particular on the last days of Johnny Hallyday. Some reported that Laeticia Hallyday had prevented Laura Smet and Nathalie Baye from seeing him one last time before his death. Which is not true, according to him. “The Saturday when I was there, when it was said that Laeticia had refused Nathalie Baye and Laura to see him, in fact, I don't know it from Laeticia, I know it (thanks to) the nurse, when I arrived I knew her well”, he said already on the C8 channel.

David and Laura “touched a lot”

“Johnny had received a text a few days earlier because they wanted to come see him”, added Jean-Claude Camus. According to him, the rocker would have liked to postpone the meeting to the following week. “No, not Saturday, next week,” the latter would have declared. “Obviously, Johnny's character, when he had decided that it was next week, it was not today. So he threw a fit. (….) And it was the nurse who was charged with telling them. “That's the real story,” he assured again.

Enough to provoke a black anger from Laura Smet. Speaking to Ciné Télé Revue, Jean-Claude Camus also said that “there was an injustice” and “the public was poorly informed” about the legacy left by Johnny Hallyday. “So, I say it: no, his two other children were not disinherited, because they received a lot before, had assured the rocker's ex-producer. And Johnny, in his mind, thought that it was necessary to ensure the future of the two little ones, who are not adults. And then, it must be noted that it was Laelig;ticia who inherited the tax debts: 34 million. As if by chance, once we knew what that he had to, we have not heard any more talk of a war of succession.”