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In 1981, the translator A sentimental crowdMarried, the father of two children, he had an intense love relationship with the actress. In his autobiography. Life is theater and memoriesReleased on April 11, he looks back on this period of great joy and pain.
They had a passionate affair in the early 1980s He, Alain Souchon, translator A sentimental crowd, was already a successful singer. She, Isabel Ajani, only 26 years old, was starting her career in cinema. In his autobiography Life is theater and memoriesOut in bookstores April 11, Laurent Woolsey’s best friend recalls his devastating encounter with the actress on the set of the film in 1981 to be exact. All fire all flames By Jean-Paul Rapenault.
“The moment of the storm,” he writes on his pages. He was 37 at the time and had been married to Françoise for almost eleven years. They have two sons together: Pierre (52 years old today) and Charles (46 years old). But the parentheses of these months of filming and the passion he experienced with Ajani prevailed, at least behind the scenes and for a while. “In this story, all three have suffered,” he says. Although the love is mutual at first sight, Alain Souchon hesitates to leave his wife. “We didn’t want to admit it to each other (that we liked each other, Editor’s Note). At first we were in a relationship of temptation and frustration. But we were very much in love with each other.”
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Stormy and tormented
Their romance continued until 1984. Both appeared on screen in another film, Killer summerby Jean Becker, which won Ajan a César for Best Actress. But Camille Claudel’s translator has a reputation as an artist and a stormy, rebellious, tormented woman. Character traits that please the singer as much as they repel him. “He wasn’t the big star he became, he was building his career. I liked his tormented side. He was very, very beautiful and very, very sophisticated,” he emphasizes.
Faced with this overwhelming passion, Alain Souchon finally chose his wife, Françoise, to whom he has been married for almost 53 years. Ajani is a sweet and distant memory today. “It ended because, seeing that I was staying with my wife, she sent me on a prank. I was very unhappy, but it was very good that way,” he now concludes.
Source: Le Figaro
