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The daughter of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin trusted the microphone France Inter: about a painful episode in his life, the death of his older sister Kate Barry, which forced him to leave France to start a new life in New York.
To promote Danny Boone’s new film, life in realityCharlotte Gainsbourg, in which she stars, was Rebecca Manzoni’s guest on France Inter’s Totemic this Friday, April 7. Serge Gainsbourg’s daughter returned to a painful episode in her life – almost ten years ago, the death of her sister Kate Barry, the eldest daughter of Jane Birkin, born from her union with British musician John Barry. Kate Barry died in December 2013 aged 46 after falling from the fourth floor of her flat at 16.e Paris region.
Upset by this dramatic episode, Charlotte Gainsbourg forced herself to make the radical but necessary decision to move on, to leave France to settle in New York with her family. “It was sad because I felt like I was running away, to leave Paris, where my sister had died six months before. My mother, she was obviously very unwell at the time, my sister Louie, but I wanted to save my skin», today he trusts in retrospect, adding: “There was also a connection with my sister, Kate, because her father was English but lived in New York. I was addicted to things».
This exile and this change of scenery is for him tantamount to a rebirth, an important phase of his mourning. The United States is then synonymous with new beginnings : “It was a new youth and anonymity that I discovered. I didn’t go there for that, but it was incredible,” he explains again to the journalist.
During this exile, however, he regularly went to Paris to see his relatives or to work on his projects. In 2017, the singer presented her album Quiet to his lost sister. Only in June 2020, after a period of confinement due to the Covid-19 pandemic, did the artist leave his home in Greenwich Village and return to the French capital. Charlotte Gainsbourg will open her late father Serge Gainsbourg’s house at 7 rue de Vernoy in September 2023.e A district of Paris turned into a museum.
Trailer: Danny Boone, Kad Merad and Charlotte Gainsbourg, the funny and lying trio. life in reality
Source: Le Figaro
