“We gave him a name, he existed.” Letitia Halliday talks about her latest miscarriage.

Læticia Hallyday is the happy mother of Jade (19 years old) and Joe (15 years old). However, before adopting her two daughters born in Vietnam, Johnny Halliday’s wife tried several times to have children from her husband. During her appearance on BFMTV’s Le Title à la une podcast this Thursday, December 21st, she opened up about her struggle to become a mother and her double miscarriages, and one in particular, 20 years ago. before “I never talked about it,” she confided with emotion. It wasn’t actually a miscarriage. It’s not a miscarriage at five months of pregnancy… It’s mourning because it’s a living thing. We gave him a name. There was. His room was ready.’

“Jade and Joey helped me grieve a lot”

As she revealed, she and Johnny Halliday had already chosen the first name for this little boy, Shane. “It was the name of a character from a movie that Johnny loved. The Man of the Lost Valleys. The hero’s name was Shane. As Johnny was a devotee of westerns, he loved this film with Alan Ladd,” he explained. The couple will have a hard time recovering from this loss, as the mourning will last for several years. “Only those who have experienced it can understand how lonely these moments are. Adopting Jade and Joe helped me a lot with my grief.” And continue. “We eventually accepted that there was no coincidence and that this was our story and our path to adopt. And then, it taught us a lot about ourselves, too.” Jade and Joy were both adopted from Vietnam in November 2004 and December 2008.

Also in the current show “En aside”, which also aired on Thursday, December 21 on Canal+, Letitia Halliday this time said a little more about the adoption of her daughters. In the intimate room of journalist Natalie Levy, facing all her memories, the 48-year-old woman confided. “It was long (…) And then this little girl came. (Jade, Sr., editor’s note)who changed everything, who revolutionized our lives, who also put the most important things in their place, who strengthened our relationship and who probably saved Johnny from his demons.”