Johnny Hallyday not really friends with Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michel Berger, it's Laura Smet who tells him

As part of a long interview granted to Paris Match Thursday December 5, 2024, Johnny Hallyday's daughter, Laura Smet, confided in particular about her late father's relationships with Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michel Berger during his lifetime.

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IN BRIEF

• Johnny Hallyday, icon of French song, died on December 5, 2017 at the age of 74, leaving behind an immense popularity and a national funeral.
• Laura Smet revealed that Johnny Hallyday had a complex with respect to Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michel Berger, preferring the company of nocturnal people.
• Discover how Nathalie Baye influenced Johnny Hallyday's career and the impact of their relationship on his personal life.

A true icon of French song. Johnny Hallyday died at the age of 74 on December 5, 2017. From lung cancer. Due to his immense popularity with the public. He was given a state funeral. Of course, his close friends were present at this great ceremony. Including his daughter Laura Smet, the fruit of his relationship with actress Nathalie Baye. The one who followed in her mother's footsteps spoke at length about her late father in Paris Match.

Laura Smet notably revealed that Johnny Hallyday was not really friends with Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michel Berger. “He preferred to spend his life with people who hung out in the evening rather than with Jean-Jacques Goldman or Michel Berger. Because he had a complex about them. It was my mother who gave him back his confidence. She was the one who introduced him to Godard, to Michel Berger, to those who carried and raised him. spiritually“, the actress explained.

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Johnny Hallyday “respected” Nathalie Baye a lot according to Laura Smet

“That's also why my father respected her a lot. Because without Michel Berger, there would have been no 'Tennessee'. And all those songs that marked her artistic renaissance in the 1980s. In her own way, my mother took care of her of this complex and him, brought him a bit of madness“, Johnny Hallyday's daughter also specified later.

During this same interview, Laura Smet returned to the separation of Johnny Hallyday and Nathalie Baye. “He spent his life on tour, he came home late at night. My mother was filming Our Story with Delon, their worlds separated them. The climate at home became tense. Because there were a lot of frustrations between them“, she first indicated.

Laura Smet: “He was very happy that Nathalie was my mother because she is someone very stable”

“He couldn't be with me during the day, because he was sleeping, and in the evening because he was singing. My mother lived the opposite way, so their story crumbled. But, I know that he always loved her, as he always loved Sylvie (Vartan). They were the two women he really trusted“, he then added Johnny Hallyday's daughter.

“He was very happy that Nathalie was my mother because she is someone very stable. He had confidence in her. And I think he still loved her…“, Laura Smet finally concluded on this subject. As a reminder, Johnny Hallyday's daughter had gone to war with the singer's last wife, Laeticia Hallyday, over the inheritance of her late father. After several years of legal proceedings, they finally reached an agreement.