On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of Dalida’s death, Orlando confided in the new issue of France Sunday, on newsstands this Friday, April 22. He notably returned to the months preceding the disappearance of his sister, whom he found changed since her suicide attempt in 1967…
If Dalida has become a star, it is also thanks to his brother Orlando. Since his tragic death in 1987, he has done everything to perpetuate the memory of his beloved sister. On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of his death on May 3, the person concerned agreed to confide, in the pages of the new issue of France Sunday, on newsstands this Friday, April 22. With our colleagues, he recounted the last months that preceded the death of the iconic singer: “For a year, it had been darker and the meals were rare. The trials had consumed her. Once once more, she wanted to take her destiny into her own hands to be around us like stardust.“, the Orlando confides.
As he recently mentioned on the set of It’s up to you, Real name Bruno Gigliotti made a promise to his sister on his deathbed. “It’s a promise I made to her the day she left. Yolanda, she’s my sister, that’s another bereavement, but the artist, I promised her that she will never die“, revealed, moved, Orlando. And to emphasize regarding the star: “All her life, Dalida set herself challenges. And even the last, she won. She wanted to leave in full glory, in full beauty, she didn’t want time to do its work on her. And when we see how present she is today“, commented Orlando, in the talk show of France 5, the 12 last April.
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Dalida was another since her suicide attempt
In the columns of France Sunday, Orlando found that Dalida had changed since his suicide attempt, in San Remo, in February 1967: “She was never the same once more. She needed another food, more spiritual, because she had no education.“, he remembered. During these years, the one who was in a relationship with Alain Delon entered a period of introspection: “During what she called her ‘four years of winter’ (from 1967 to 1971, editor’s note), she has read the great philosophers. She made a retreat in an ashram. A wise man in India convinced her that her mission was to sing“That’s what she did until her last breath…
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