Claude François Jr. returned to the existence of his father’s hidden daughter.
This revelation had the effect of a bomb. In February 2019, the hidden daughter of Claude François, Julie Bocquet revealed her identity in broad daylight. Aged 40, she announced that she was the daughter of the singer and a young Belgian fan, aged 14, when she met the artist. “I saw Claude François for the first time in 1974 (…) We went to see a concert in Port-la-Nouvelle. Then I had the chance to meet him on a radio show, and That’s where we really got to know each other.” said the mother of the family.
A shock announcement, especially since the latter was a minor at the time of her delivery. She had specified “never having indicated (his) age” to Claude Francois. “I looked older. It’s true that I was tall, I was already 1m70 tall, I spoke several languages”. For the very first time, the son of Claude François mentioned the existence of his half-sister, during a telephone conversation with Matthieu Delormeau, who hosted TPMP People, on Saturday March 11, 2023. “I never spoke about it on television, the story is complicated, I’m not surprised, I spoke to the mother, and I understood that Julie was a fragile woman and it was delicate to interact in this story”he begins by telling.
Claude François Jr. stands up for his father
He defends his father thus:You could say it was a lack of vigilance, and what I can tell you is that my father didn’t know his mother’s age when he met her, that she was trained, that she spoke four languages and he had every reason to believe that she was much older than she actually was,” says Claude François Jr. He remembers a particular event as follows: “I will give an anecdote: one day, she gave him her age, she said to him ‘But how old do you think I am?’ And when she told him she was 15, it was she who tells me, he turned pale, ‘you want me to end up in jail?’. She’s Flemish, jail she didn’t know what that meant, it’s French slang and when she tells me that, it can’t be invented”he concludes.
