During his stay in 50 minutes Inside this Saturday, March 18, Jean-Paul Gaultier returned to his commitment against AIDS, and confided in the death of his ex-companion, carried away by this disease.
A man of many facets, Jean paul Gaultier is a couturier but above all a very committed person. At 37, the man who recently retired from the world of Haute Couture has lost his “half“, Francis Menuge, because of AIDS. A tragedy which he had already agreed to speak to Tele-Leisure in 2018, when he launched his burlesque magazine. The creator evoked the “lack“of his right arm, become”disabilities” in his daily life. He recalled that at the time, “there were no remedies that there are today“. However, the big name in fashion finds that this virus is still just as worrying in 2023.
A weighty disappearance
The portrait of the week in 50 minutes Inside on TF1 is devoted to the sailor’s emblem. The opportunity for the septuagenarian to retrace his career, fatally marked by his commitment against this scourge. “It obviously affects me the Sidaction especially because I’m from the generation that knew Sidaction from the start“, explains the stylist who lived fifteen years with Francis Menuge. And to remember, moved: “The first wave fell on my friend, Francis, who was my companion. He died of AIDS in early 1990, really the year 1990 in September. 40 years old is crazy“, he says in front of Nikos Aliagas who sympathizes.
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This message still needed
The ex-juror of Dance with the starstake the opportunity to make a reminder of the circumstances: “People need to continue doing prevention and testshe says, targeting young people in particular. Young people in particular because when we are young, we think that we are untouchable, that the disease will not affect us and we can survive anything. No, that’s precisely where it’s most dangerous. Track yourself and above all protect yourself!“. A year ago, interviewed by Léa Salamé in We are live, Jean-Paul Gaultier reaffirmed that he intended to honor this fight to pay tribute to the boy who supported him.
