2023-10-19 05:01:00
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He appeared, very sad, to all the members of the family on July 24 at the funeral of Jane Birkin, in the Saint-Roch church in Paris. And for good reason. Roman de Kermadec is the singer’s grandson. Son of the photographer Kate Barry, he leads his boat in the shadows, where he operates as a cinema stagehand. But on the occasion of the release of his mother’s book, entitled My Own Space, which was published by Editions de La Martinière, he agreed to break his silence. To promote this beautiful project of which he is the originator, but also to pay tribute to the woman who gave him life.
Roman de Kermadec now owns his mother’s artistic work. He inherited his photos, although they had long been stored in the cellar of his grandmother Jane Birkin, in Paris and in her house in Brittany. He ended up taking them out of the boxes for the book goods My Own Space…but perhaps this test has been too complicated until now. Kate Barry died in 2013 following falling from the window of her apartment, located on the 4th floor, in the 16 arrondissement of Paris. The cause of his fall has never been determined and Jane Birkin like Charlotte Gainsbourg have always favored the theory of an accident. Not Roman de Kermadec.
Accidental death? “Not for me”, he explains today in the pages of the magazine Paris Match. On the day of her death, Kate Barry was to have dinner with her new companion, Oury. Instead, she left Roman de Kermadec an orphan, whatever the reason for this terrible accident.
It was so violent to see my world collapse
Roman de Kermadec had, inevitably, not experienced this period well. “I went to live with my grandmother and I collapsedhe remembers. I knocked myself out with alcohol, it was so violent to see my world collapse, to be an orphan at 25, without really understanding why. I was angry with her, with the whole world and, at the same time, so sad. And that’s how I still feel today regarding his death..” It was not the first time that he faced the demons of drink and drugs, since he was already in excess at the age of 18 or 19. It was at this time, in any case, that his mother had sent him to Canada for a first cure.
Kate Barry, her fight to “recover from her drug addiction”
Kate Barry also faced drug addiction and made it one of her battles. Before taking up photography, she fought for the creation of Apte, “its center to help drug-dependent people“, Roman remembers. “It was his way of repairing himself from his drug addiction, of simply repairing himself“, he adds. This is something I only realized very recently, being a former addict myself.“Kate Barry also fell into drugs at a very young age, shortly following Roman’s birth.
“There is a breeding ground, and as far as I am concerned, my complicated childhood, the absence of a father, a family of artists who live in the spotlight, all that makes me a good candidate for excessive alcohol consumption, drugs and what goes with themhe recalls. At first it seemed rock’n’roll to me, cool. And I thought I would find my freedom. I quickly saw that it was a prison.” This end of the year 2023 is definitely focused on the Gainsbourg clan. In addition to the release of Kate Barry’s tribute book, Charlotte Gainsbourg finally opened the doors of her famous father’s private mansion. A real house museum, located at 5 bis rue de Verneuil, which is a huge success with visitors.
Find the interview with Roman de Kermadec in Paris Match magazine.
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