Are they about to bury the hatchet? In cold for many years, Bénabar and Benjamin Biolay have long launched peaks through the media. While in 2009 the two artists met by chance at the restaurant Thoumieux, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, Bénabar hit the 47-year-old star in the face. A customer then said: “Bénabar got up from the table and rushed to Biolay! He called him names. He kept saying: ‘… you’ve been rotting me for four years in the press and everywhere! Come outside if you’re a man! ‘ He held him by the arm, tried to get him to stand up, but Biolay didn’t react.“If friends of the two singers had interposed, this story had greatly reacted.
While last July, Benjamin Biolay had mentioned the clashes he had with other artists over the years during an interview with Vanity Fair, Bénabar wanted to react! On Instagram, the performer of the title Dinner began: “A few lines in response to the lies that I see blooming again in the press about my subject. I intervene reluctantly, because they belittle the values I want to defend. I have never engaged in a ‘clash’ with Benjamin Biolay, quite the contrary (which is very easily verifiable). I find deplorable these futile quarrels between optional ‘stars’ which only reinforce the climate of aggression that the most vulnerable are already undergoing.“
“The conclusion of a ridiculous controversy”
“I have indeed – and I regret it – slapped Benjamin Biolay in a restaurant because of insults in insults, he had allowed himself to speak with condescension of my mother. It’s all childish, too bad, but well behind me. I accept on principle the criticisms, but not the untruths that some reserve for the rebellious who have the bad taste not to try to please them. Sorry for those who will belittle this message by seeing only whining and bitterness. To others, thank you for taking the time to read me and I hope you will perceive the sincerity of these few lines“, explained Bénabar. To conclude his message, the artist added:”For my part, I continue to make songs hoping that they bring a little happiness and poetry. I would like this post to be the conclusion of a derisory controversy and not the start of another.“
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