Legendary couple: Johnny Hallyday and Nathalie Baye, their happy parenthesis<

In 1982, Nathalie Baye entered the Hallyday clan.Three years, a flash passion and a child later, the couple separates without cutting the bridges.After the death of the rocker, Nathalie Baye even supports her elders David and Laura in the financial battle between them to Laeticia Hallyday.From this media and surprising relationship for the public, the actress keeps a tender memory and a hint of bitterness.

It must be said that in the early 1980s, the public had kept the platinum blond marriage between Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday in the lead.After their divorce, they remain united by their son David but the singer is going through a hollow period.Nathalie Baye, she has just been revealed by François Truffaut and turns with the greatest.In 1981, she won a César for her role in a Godard film.The chances for the two stars to cross are minimal but fate decides otherwise.

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Nathalie Baye and the "French Elvis"

Future lovers meet in 1982, while they are about to shoot a sketch together, named "what's new my pretty".Journalist Michele Dokan, then present by their side, remembers that "Johnny went directly to the Carpentier [the hosts of the show] who wanted to present Nathalie Baye to him and with whom he was going to do a sketch in their next television show".He immediately falls under the spell of this 37 -year -old bourgeois actress, with whom he has nothing in common.Their loved ones, like the press, wonder what this daughter of good family does with a popular singer, known for her unstable family life and her many conquests.

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On both sides, the a priori rain.Nathalie Baye first finds him mulpoliated, annoyed by her hour's delay at their appointment.She entrusts "the express style" how categorical she was at the time." I did not want.Johnny, it was not my thing ".She was not her genre either."I was not used to flirting with girls like Nathalie," said Johnny Hallyday in his autobiography "Destroy"."She was apart.It was an intellectual with friends who had voted Mitterrand, wore scarves and velvet pants and who went to the Avignon Festival.»Ouch.Their story seemed badly.But as the adage says, do not trust appearances.Jean-Philippe Smet is a "shy" and "touching" man who eclipses his competitors.These "types all more blond and more tanned than the other" do not make the weight, explains the actress who falls under her spell after a few weeks.If she is seduced by the character, she especially falls in love with the "real" Johnny.Admittedly, Nathalie Baye admits having a penchant for "the slightly borderline types, a little" bad boys "" in an interview for "chatte".But it is the "absolute simplicity" of the singer who stings his curiosity."He is disarming, you know.Quite the opposite of what one might think.He is very shy, charming, and can be very funny.We laughed well together.»»

Renowned to be a man to women, Johnny has known several stories.Sometimes they were simultaneous.When he meets Nathalie Baye, her divorce with actress Babeth Etienne has just been pronounced.Although their marriage only lasted 65 days, he wishes to win back it by asking her again his hand. Babeth Etienne raconte dans son livre « Je me souviens encore»» comment Nathalie Baye l’a remplacée dans le cœur du Taulier."One day, he left to shoot a“ formula one ”of the carpenter in Paris.He didn't want to but I encouraged him.Nathalie Baye was indeed part of the casting.He did not return as expected.Not a call.Nothing .Not a word. Quelques jours plus tard, j’ai appris dans un magazine people qu’il avait une nouvelle conquête»», s’attriste-t-elle.The fallen wife pays the price for the sensitivity of the rocker, who tells him that he "madly loved it but that he met someone, without naming her.»»

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Love lasts three years

Avec ce « quelqu’un»» dont il n’ose pas prononcer le nom, Johnny Hallyday se lance tête baissée dans la vie de famille.A step that had proven destructive during her marriage to Sylvie Vartan. Nathalie Baye et l’interprète de « Gabrielle»» achètent un pavillon dans les Yvelines et accueillent en 1983 une petite fille, Laura.It is the beginning of a peaceful existence which, unfortunately, will not last.Despite everything, the beginnings are idyllic.They stay in the Creuse (almost) incognito.There, the French rock star is a Creusois "like the others", remember the friends of the couple.Johnny, the unbridled rocker with discolored hair abandons his cowboy look in contact with his new partner.He wears tweed jackets and reduces his visits to the hairdresser.We see him on a ride on the market square or in the middle of a fishing game with his neighbors. La marraine de Laura Smet raconte à « La Montagne»» qu’à la nuit tombée, il boit des tisanes dans son salon.

But the birth of their daughter Laura precipitates things.Occupied by tours, it is little present for the two women of his life.Nathalie Baye raises her baby alone and the young parents end up moving away.A voice blows to Jean-Philippe Smet that it is time to find his life before and when he has to choose between rock’n’roll and family life, music is imposed on him. « J'aime toujours Nathalie, elle a fait de moi un homme bien, mais je ne peux pas vivre avec une femme, j'ai le cœur déchiré»», admet la star à qui la liberté manque trop.Too busy jobs, boredom and jealousy come to taint their romance.Nathalie Baye is doubly cesarized when she begins the shooting of "Our History", a film in which she gives the reply to a sex symbol of French cinema.When "the boss" learns that she spends her days with Alain Delon, he is crushed by jealousy. Trente ans plus tard, l’intéressée en rit bien volontiers : « Johnny était tellement agacé que je parte tourner avec Delon que, chaque matin, il me demandait de lui cuisiner un ragoût de mouton !»», raconte-t-elle.Passion is running out of steam when, in 1986, the couple decided to recharge their batteries on Mauritius."There, they chat. Longtemps, calmement, sans drame, sans heurt », rappelle « Gala»».A few holidays could rekindle the flame.Without success.On their return to France, "they decide by mutual agreement to separate.»»

Their story, a "happy parenthesis"

Nathalie Baye and Johnny Hallyday have experienced other passionate love.One with Pierre Lescure, the other with ex-Mannequin Laeticia Boudou.The death of the legendary artist in December 2017 deeply affects the mother of Laura Smet, who cultivates the memory of a man apart.From souvenir photos to interviews, she maintains the memory of the idol of young people."I have a wonderful memory of our life. Ce fut une parenthèse heureuse»», indiquait-t-elle à « Gala»» le 10 juin dernier. Ils étaient différents mais s’aimaient malgré tout, à jamais « complices»».The actress, however discreet, even came out of the shadows to support the elders of the Hallyday, David and Laura clan in their legal battle against the widow of the singer of the singer.Deprived of inheritance, they fight fiercely to obtain their case. En mère protectrice, elle déclarait dans un communiqué publié par « Le Figaro»» que « les aînés étaient les bêtes noires de leur belle-mère»».Four years after her disappearance, Nathalie Baye is ready to do anything to help their only daughter and still smiles at the evocation of the Taulier.