Johnny Hallyday condemned by illness: this secret that Laura Smet and David Hallyday had to hide from him

Laura Smet and David Hallyday hidé A medical confidentiality their father Johnny Hallyday, at death's door. The actress tells à Paris Match.

© Bestimage Johnny Hallyday, died on December 5, 2017

IN BRIEF

< li>Laura Smet recalls her father's last days in the pages of Paris Match.
• He and his half-brother David Hallyday's ex-husband hid a medical secret their father.
• Johnny Hallyday never knew he only had a few days left when he left the clinic.< /li>

On December 9, 2017, several hundred French people paid tribute to Johnny Hallyday, who had died four days earlier. “I didn't understand anything about that day. I was completely absent, Laura Smet recounts in a lengthy interview given to the magazine Paris Match. I had no idea that it was going to be like

The actress was probably thinking back to the last months spent at her father's bedside, at Marnes-la-Coquette. “I came every day, she assures our colleagues, evoking “some rather violent exchanges”between them. If he did not know he was doomed, according to the one who is now a mother, the Boss was nevertheless “very afraid of death”.

Johnny Hallyday: this secret that his children Laura Smet and David Hallyday hid from him

Back in November 2017. While cancer is gaining ground, Johnny Hallyday submits every day to radiotherapy sessions. Morphine soon becomes no longer enough to ease the pain. On the 12th, Laeticia wakes up with a start in the middle of the night: her husband is having difficulty breathing. She then takes him by car to the Bizet clinic, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

“We were toldà David, his wife and I that it was over, hands over his stepdaughter. We were also told that he didn't want to stay there and that he was going to être in palliative care”, which Johnny Hallyday would never know. “We shouldn't have told him”, the actress continued. It was horrible…” The teen idol would die a few weeks later at his home.

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Not a day goes by without Laura Smet thinking about her father. “A day like today, he really was there, it's very strange, Nathalie Baye's daughter tries to explain during the same interview. It comes through body language, food cravings”…

Little Léo's mother dreams a lot about her late dad. On her wedding day, June 15, 2019, the date on which the Boss would have celebrated his 76th birthday, she remembers hearing the song Laura on the radio. “It was as if he was saying to me: 'Excuse me, I didn't wake up in time. But now, we can go.' And I spent a day completely high thanks to him“, she says.