She wanted to share her memories. One of Serge Gainsbourg’s former mistresses has released a book retracing her romance with the singer. Marie remembers her relationship with the artist and the memories are not all happy.
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In the life of Serge Gainsbourg, women have paraded. Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin, Bambou, for the most famous. But the singer also had many informal relationships, lasting one night or more, but never in a lifetime. The last years of his life, he regularly visited a young woman named Marie, now a French teacher. The one who lived moments with Charlotte Gainsbourg’s father wished to share her experience alongside the artist in a book, called He was a goose. If at the beginning, she was an unconditional fan of Serge Gainsbourg, little by little her status changed: she became one of his mistresses ! Having contacted him by mail, at first, she shared many meals at the restaurant with the former companion of Jane Birkin. An idyll that would have lasted three years, according to Marie. “The first time he invited me to dinner, I was over the moon “, she confides to Nice morning.
A “destructive passion”
Unfortunately, the dream quickly turned into a nightmare: “But I quickly realized that Gainsbourg had become Gainsbarre. He drank in the morning (…) he smoked constantly too“, she recalls. Difficult times to live for the young woman of the time which justifies the excesses of the singer by his separation from Jane Birkin. Since this break, he had become “unable to really love“. From this relationship with the star she had admired so much, Marie keeps a mixture of feelings:”Compassion too, and sometimes pity, because he could be pathetic and ridiculous“. This “destructive passion” with the artist will have marked her for years. The professor will rebuild her life, with another man, putting an end to her relationship with Serge Gainsbourg. Having completely cut ties with the singer, he would, according to her, “unhappy death”.
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