The 50-year-old artist, in an interview with The Parisian for the promotion of the film passengers of the nightreturned to the death of her father which occurred more than 30 years ago.
March 2, 1991: the world mourns the departure of Serge Gainsbourg, found dead at 62 of a heart attack in his room. His daughter Charlotte was then 19 years old.
The one who followed in the footsteps of her illustrious father in music and cinema is devastated by this sudden loss. “My father’s death broke me so much that I mightn’t reinvent myself right away. I followed a path with Yvan (Editor’s note: Yvan Attal, her companion with whom she had three children), but it was parallel to grief. Then, with Yvan and with each child, I built myself” she confided this May 4 to the Parisian.
Charlotte Gainsbourg was rocked by a new family drama in 2013, the tragic death of her half-sister Kate Berry, fell from the top of his apartment. This event has “destroyed once more”.