People and royalty
Before meeting Azucena, the woman of his life, Florent Pagny lived a passionate love story with Vanessa Paradis. A relationship that was short but intense.
According to an article Paris Match France from Writing
While waiting for his big return to the stage next June, Florent Pagny is the subject of an unpublished documentary broadcast on TF1 on Sunday January 1. Archive images, personal videos, testimonials from friends and collaborators… The documentary directed by Michel Jankielewicz retraces the career of the singer, at the very moment when he is regarding to make his comeback, following a year of fighting cancer.
If the artist’s wife occupies a prominent place in this documentary, another woman who shared the life of Florent Pagny is mentioned: Vanessa Paradis, who was his companion between 1989 and 1991. The two interpreters lived a real love at first sight on the set of a music show in Florida in 1988. But it took a few months for this love at first sight to materialize.
« One morning I go down, I arrive in her room and there I hallucinate, I see Vanessa Paradis’ face. I’m embarrassed I’m leaving », remembers the actor Jean-Pierre Loustau in the documentary, that Paris Match was able to preview. The latter then lived with the singer in a house in Nogent-sur-Marne. For the latter, his friend was ” completely crazy » by Vanessa Paradis, et vice versa.
“He saw something terrible”
Harassed by the paparazzi, the lovers are forced to leave home to settle together in a Parisian apartment. There, they regularly receive their group of friends. But the media harassment does not stop and Florent Pagny decides to reply with the title “Presse qui roue”. So boycotted by the upset media, the singer sees his career stopped and his income decreasing, he who is the spendthrift type…
He must then face a tax adjustment, at the very moment when his relationship with Vanessa Paradis is deteriorating. The singer ends up leaving him during the summer of 1991, following two and a half years of relationship. A break that hurts him “, as confides Jean-Pierre Loustau. ” He saw something terrible. “In addition to this separation, Florent Pagny sees some of his friends turn their backs on him.
Helped by a few loyal friends, notably Kad Merad, whom he met at that time, Florent Pagny climbed the slope following meeting Azucena in 1993. Almost thirty years later, the latter remains his best ally, especially in his fight once morest cancer.