Perrine Némard, Jellyfish France
Very close to his sister, Orlando is often led to confide in his sister Dalida, who unfortunately died in 1987. This Tuesday, April 12, 2022, the producer was invited to the set of the show C to you. The opportunity for him to return this time to a private part of the singer’s life…
Between oppressive celebrity and impossible loves, the beautiful Dalida had a rather sad and eventful life. Guest on the set of C to you to commemorate the 35th anniversary of her death, her brother Orlando returned to the diva’s brief love affair with a young Roman student. An idyll that many fans believed to be the origin of his hit He had just turned 18. But according to the producer, this situation was pure chance. “When she sang this song, everyone believed it was written thanks to her love with the young man, it was totally a coincidence. You know, there were only two people who knew regarding this story: me and my cousin Rosie. My mother didn’t know, my brother didn’t know“, he explained in front of Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine.
“She didn’t tell anyone she was pregnant”
When she discovers that she is pregnant, the one who also had a story with Alain Delon decides to keep the secret and to have an abortion clandestinely. “She didn’t tell anyone she was pregnant. Even the young man never knew. Maybe he found out later when the book came out. But I tell you: he never knew that Dalida was expecting a child. She had made up her mind that our mother shouldn’t know regarding it. So every song that can make you think of it is pure chance“, he affirmed. And if Orlando allowed himself to reveal this secret, it is of course with the agreement of his sister. “When she left, she whispered to me the things that I might reveal and those that I had no right to say. These were his last wishes. And at that time, when I wrote the book, I had to talk regarding it because her abortion went very badly. She might never be a mother…“, he concluded with sadness.