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Photographer Kate Barry’s Son Reflects on His Mother’s Death and Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Exile

Photographer Kate Barry died on December 11, 2013, at the age of 46, after falling from the fourth floor of her Parisian apartment in the 16th arrondissement. Ten years later, his son, Roman de Kermadec, returns to the shock of his disappearance in the columns of Paris Match. When he lost his mother, he was 25 years old, and if he was able to count on his grandmother, Jane Birkin, with whom he had gone to live, in Bucy, his aunt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, during that time, was very far away…

“A lot of guilt for having gone there”

Kate Barry’s little sister then decided to go into exile in New York to rebuild her life. In the columns of Télérama, she then explained about this trip: “I hope that I will be able, one day, to look at Paris again, without it being painful”. For 6 years, she had thus distanced herself. Not without guilt…

Indeed, in March 2023, while she was promoting a documentary filmed around her mother, Jane Birkin, “Jane by Charlotte”, Charlotte Gainsbourg admitted: “My first impulse was not to make a film on her. I lived in New York with great guilt within me for having left there when we had just lost my sister, and therefore her daughter, as if I had abandoned my mother to save myself, so initially, I just wanted to spend time with her, enjoy watching her.”

“Charlotte did as best she could”

Fortunately, Roman didn’t hold it against her for those years when she wasn’t nearby. And this October 19, 2023, her nephew assures Paris Match about this saving move to the United States which lasted 6 years: “Charlotte did like all of us, that is to say as she was able “.

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2023-10-19 11:10:00
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