The artist suffered from depression and loneliness.
“Black Widow” – so the French press dubbed the singer Dalida. Her records alone have sold more than 170 million worldwide. The icon of French chanson, which managed to change with the era, and the brilliant actress was unhappy in life, and at the age of 54 she decided to end it altogether.
After running away from home for a beauty pageant, she ruined her first engagement. Three of her lovers committed suicide. Italian tenor Luigi Tenko reacted with hostility to the defeat of his song at the competition in San Remo and killed himself right in the hotel. There he was discovered by a shocked singer. Then she herself almost took her own life, but she was saved.
After 90 hours in a coma, she returned to the stage again and fell in love again. The lucky one was the French artist Richard Chanfre. Together they lived for 9 years, but two years after the breakup, he also voluntarily passed away.
The suicide of Lucien Morris’ first and only husband – her Pygmalion – deeply shocked Dalida, although they had long since divorced by that time. At the same time, an ominous nickname was assigned to her.
Someone saw evil fate in her pseudonym: initially Delilah was Delilah – the one who seduced Samson and dealt with him.
In a farewell note, which the artist wrote before drinking a lethal dose of sleeping pills with whiskey, it was said: “Life has become unbearable for me. Excuse me”.
