Guest on France Inter, this Wednesday, September 20, 2023, Charlotte Gainsbourg returned to the death of her mother Jane Birkin last July, revealing that she did not expect her disappearance at all.
A very sudden disappearance. This Wednesday, September 20, 2023, Charlotte Gainsbourg was the guest of the France Inter morning show, on the occasion of the opening to the public of Maison Gainsbourg, the residence of her father Serge Gainsbourg located at 5 rue de Verneuil in Paris. An opening which was almost postponed due to the death of Jane Birkin on July 16. The one who was a true icon suffered from leukemia, which she had been fighting for several decades. However, the 52-year-old actress assures that she did not expect her mother’s death at all.
Charlotte Gainsbourg opens up about the sudden death of her mother Jane Birkin
Questioned at the microphone of Léa Salamé and Nicolas Demorand, Charlotte Gainsbourg confides with emotion: “Even though we knew it was going to happen, (we didn’t think) there. Well, you never really expect it. It’s been fifteen years since we thought that at times she was going to die, then she got up all the time, all the time. She was a force of nature, so astonishing that even her doctors didn’t know what to say at the end, because she was recovering from everything. So no, I didn’t expect it like that“, she assured. Yvan Attal’s companion admits to never being ready for life without Jane Birkin: “I lived the death of my father devastated me, but the death of a mother is in our body. There is something that we don’t expect at all (…) There is (like) my spine collapsing and I no longer have any bearings. I really have no bearings anymore“, she insisted.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg and her sister Lou Doillon “paralyzed“since the death of their mother
Charlotte Gainsbourg also explains that she now finds herself with the terrible task of having to take care of the property left by Jane Birkin: “There is the after… There are the walls of her house. What do we do with our objects? With Lou Doillon and Roman, Kate Barry’s sonwe are a little paralyzed…“, admitted the actress, who took 32 years to be able to take care of her father’s affairs.
