The writer Line Papin, who married Marc Lavoine in 2020, confides in the mourning she went through after her breakup with the singer, 33 years her senior.
A real mourning Line Papin. The love at first sight between the young author (then aged 20) and the Marc Lavoine took place in 2016 in a radio studio when she came to present her very first, but very noticed, novel entitled awakening. Quickly, and despite their significant age difference sometimes decried, the two artists had fallen in love with each other. They were also married in July of 2020. But their story faded and they ended up separating two years later. In After Lovea collection of very intimate poems (but in which she never names the singer), the young woman indulges in “the journey of mourning explored over a year“ after this painful breakup.
“I lost everything I imagined to build“
In a portrait devoted to Line Papin, our colleagues from Paris Match reveal some excerpts from the lines that the author had first written in a notebook before choosing to entrust it to his publisher. “When you love someone you build and you project in a film. Mine froze overnight : there was no more scenario. So when it all stops, you ask yourself: ‘What am I going to do with this love that is no more?””, she had started writing in her small notebook in January 2022. “I got married at 24, I had an abortion at 25, I live alone at 26. The future is silent. He’s lurking in the bushes. He promises me nothing“, she confides in another poem, before explaining in the columns of the magazine to have “taken all the liberties” by blackening the pages: “I lost everything I imagined building, the apartment, the marriage, the children (…) as nothing had worked, I had nothing more to lose“, she assures. And the Franco-Vietnamese writer: “My breakup was such an earthquake that I froze. I couldn’t leave my apartment and my friends.”
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Line Papin confides in her abortion
Throughout her work, Line Papin who felt “disidentified“since her breakup, also evokes her abortion in 2021:”You I will never mourn (…) I imagine your little hand, my baby never born“, she writes in a poem titled Martha. The author, who had already spoken of her miscarriage, when she was pregnant with twins, returns to this choice of transparency about these terminated pregnancies: “I didn’t ask myself for a single second whether I should remove it (from my book). It’s part of my story and tells of a bereavement, an amputated future. The subject of abortion should not be taboo“, says the former wife of Marc Lavoine.
