"I was in something very sick" : Charlotte Gainsbourg’s poignant statement on her father’s death

It’s with an open heart that Charlotte Gainsbourg surrenders herself on set.as a party this Thursday, April 20 channel+. The 51-year-old actress has a lot of news as she is currently starring in Dany Boon’s new movie. real life. The actor also announced to the public that the museum dedicated to his father Serge Gainsbourg, located in his former home at 5 bis rue de Verneuil at 7, will open next September.^to district of Paris. A project that means a lot to the artist and is very committed to this place: “I was 19 when he died. I met Yvan (Attal) a month later and we lived together so our life began, a new life began for me. But I immediately wanted to take the rue de Verneuil, so as not to change the furniture. Frankly, I wanted to turn this place into a museum because I thought my father would like it, too.“

But emotionally managing this place was difficult at first for Charlotte Gainsbourg, as Nathalie Levy explained afterward: “But I think it was also, more selfishly, acting like he was still there. As a result, I locked myself in there to hurt myself even more. I had the option not to go… I couldn’t go to the cemetery because there were people there. It was complicated.“Charlotte Gainsbourg, who was 19 when her father died in 1991, admits that she had a hard time coming to terms with his disappearance: “I could never mourn my father’s passing because I couldn’t, but also because I always reacted to what people shared with me. They wanted to talk to me about my father who had just died, they wanted to show me something, I heard his voice on the radio, I passed by Verneuil street… It was actually impossible to protect yourself. However, I could not manage this extinction, the absence. It ruined me for too long. I think until the birth of my son (in 1997, editor’s note), I was in something very morbid. But hey, that’s how it was.“

“It’s true that I locked myself inside on the rue de Verneuil“, continues Charlotte Gainsbourg.”Her scent was still in me, there was a mark on her sofa, as if her body shape was still sitting on it. She had just died in her home… In her room, I could see her still lying in the same way I saw her when she died. It’s true that I have a very peculiar, very special relationship.“So in 2013, Yvan Attal’s partner gave himself an ultimatum to move forward:”When I went to New York, I said to myself: “I either build a museum or sell it and I go bankrupt. But I am content with this tomb”. So I think it gives me strength. New York gave me the strength to make this documentary about my mother (Jane Birkin, editor’s note), finish it, and open rue de Verneuil.“

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