Laura Smet, Linda Hardy fan: this choice of Johnny Hallyday that she still hasn't understood

Seven years after Johnny Hallyday's death, his daughter Laura Smet confides in Paris Match about her father's romantic relationships. She admits in particular her incomprehension in the face of her breakup with Linda Hardy.

© Pierre Perusseau/Bestimage Laura Smet at the presentation of the literary prize “La Closerie des Lilas” at Paris on April 12, 2022.

IN BRIEF

On December 5, 2017, France mourned the death of Johnny Hallyday. For the seventh anniversary of his death, his daughter Laura Smet gave an interview to Paris Match in which she frankly discusses the many conquests of her famous father. While most of them did not leave a mark on her, the 39-year-old actress admits to having formed a special relationship with one of them: Linda Hardy.

Laura Smet close to Linda Hardy

In this interview with With an open heart, Laura Smet remembers the different companions who shared her father's life. “What mattered to me was knowing that he was happy“, she emphasizes kindly. “I always saw him with gorgeous girls. Some weren't there for the right reasons“.

Among all these women, one particularly touched Laura Smet. It was Linda Hardy, a model and actress seen in the series Tomorrow Belongs to Us and Profiling. Between Johnny's daughter and the beautiful brunette, things immediately hit it off. “A great girl with whom I got on very well”, remembers Laura Smet with tenderness.

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Johnny's incomprehensible decision

However, despite this beautiful complicity, the story between Johnny Hallyday and Linda Hardy did not last. A breakup that Laura Smet still has trouble understanding today. Indeed, she reveals that it was her father who put an end to this relationship, under a pretext that she considers “completely crazy“.

“Linda didn't want to marry him. So he left her“, says Laura Smet, incredulous. A decision that she still can't explain, as the understanding between the rocker and his partner seemed to be going well. “I found it completely crazy“, she insists. But Nathalie Baye's daughter assures her, “nothing in his relationship with women has ever shocked me“. A judgment filled with admiration and love for this father she has never ceased to cherish.

A father's loving confidences to his daughter

Beyond Linda Hardy, Laura Smet remembers with nostalgia and humor the many confidences her father made about his love life. From the age of 13, the young girl had become Johnny's “shrink”. “He spoke to me like a best friend, who could advise him on a few things…“, she says.

A surprising role but one that she assumed without taboo. Because Johnny's conquests were “part of the thing” in her words. Despite her young age, she listened to her father open up, share his thoughts on women. A closeness rare that testifies to the strength of their bond. “We didn't need to talk, we looked at each other, we understood each othert”, sums up with émotion the one who considered the rocker as “the love of her life”.