“I cried all the way when we brought him back from the orphanage.” Jade and Joy Halliday look back on their first moments as sisters.

They say they can’t imagine leading a life anywhere other than America. Jade and Joy Halliday spilled their first secrets in the latest issue of the magazine Paris game , on newsstands this Thursday, December 7. At 19, the former is currently studying at Otis College, a school of art and design, and the latter is enrolled at the French High School in Los Angeles. A city where two young women say they feel “at home”. In this interview, we learn more about their daily lives across the Atlantic, their aspirations, but also the relationship between the sisters. Little known in France, they seem simple and instinctive and, despite some frustrations, not malicious.

Two conjoined sisters

This interview reveals the unshakable bond between Jade and Joe, born and adopted in Vietnam. “As we grow older and have more and more of the same delusions, the bond is strengthened,” explains the former. Of course, there were disputes and jealousies, about which he tells in detail. “I remember crying with anger all the way when we brought her back from the orphanage,” she explains, recalling her younger sister’s arrival to the family. A moment that he remembers in detail. “He was in his mother’s arms, and I, sitting in the back of the car, dreamed of only one thing: to be in his place. It was huge, I was so jealous…” Before adding: “I pulled her hair, screamed in her ears, stole her food as soon as her back was turned, even pushed her down the stairs.

Jealousy, which is ultimately common to all siblings. Jade seems to be back. “It took me a while to love him, but now I’m so happy he’s here,” says Letitia and Jonny Halliday’s eldest daughter, excited. And Joy generously agrees. “Never mind, I barely noticed it… Even if my first memory was him rocking my crib to wake me up.” So, time has flown by and declarations of love between the very close ones abound, as evidenced by this Instagram caption Joy shared for her big sister’s 19th birthday last August: I don’t know what I’ll do without you, my base. I love you with all my heart. I love being your little sister and having you as my sister and best friend.

Alone against all

They form a close trio with their mother Leticia. “We have a hyper-fusion relationship and support it unconditionally,” Joy explains. What does his sister confirm? “We tell each other everything, we don’t hide anything from each other. He is always there to comfort us. We share everything with him: our sorrows, our joys, our experiences, and also… our clothes.” This small, united clan, since the death of the patriarch in 2017, lives in Los Angeles, far from certain hostility from France, which they approach without taboo. It is the inheritance case that confronts Leticia and Johnny Halliday’s two other children, Laura Smet and David Halliday, that breaks the already tenuous bond between them. “We have the same name, the same father, but ultimately nothing in common,” Joy explains. And his sister approves of what she calls “betrayal”. They hurt us,” before revealing, mercilessly. “Now I don’t even miss them.”

Moreover, there were many people who would despair of them. “Before I had another godfather, Jean-Claude Darmont, and Jade had another godfather, Luana Belmondo, but we had to change because they were disappointing us,” says Joy Halliday. And added, visibly affected. “When we first met them after dad died last summer, at Claude Lelouch’s wedding, they didn’t even greet us.” Thus, the death of the “youth idol” had the effect of a certain isolation, even a sense of abandonment by “people who.[elles] saw[ent] almost every day with which [elles] left[ent] on vacation,” Joey blurts out. Ultimately, it is her sister Jade who best sums up this period; “After father’s departure, from one day to the next, they didn’t give any more news, left, deleted…”. But nothing will affect their morale and psychological state either, those who want to always be positive with the leitmotif of always keeping… Desire.

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