After seven years in New York, Charlotte Gainsbourg returned to Paris last June. In the columns of Madame Figaro on newsstands this Friday, January 15, the actress and singer reveals why she chose to return to France.
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the lives of many people around the world. Charlotte Gainsbourg is one of those people who decided to change their life … or, in a way, to find the one before. The 49-year-old actress, who had moved to a house in New York with her children, in 2013, following the death of her sister Kate Barry on December 11 of that year, turned back last June. In an interview with Madame Figaro and published this Friday, January 15, the daughter of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg explains why she chose to put her boxes in Paris, in the 7th arrondissement. “In April, New York had become this deserted city, at the end of the world, and I had a panic “, says the singer, distraught by nature. And to continue: “I said to myself : ‘enough to live apart, I need to be with Yvan, my son, my mother, Yvan’s mother. “
It must be said that for years, Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg had a long-distance relationship, with its share of difficulties. The mother then returned to France, accompanied by her daughter, Joe (9 years old), and found her lover as well as their eldest son, Ben (23 years old). As for their youngest daughter, Alice (18), she stayed in the United States to continue her studies, housed in a campus. An (almost) whole family, for their greatest happiness.
The calm before the storm
Beyond the spread of Covid-19, Charlotte Gainsbourg left a very tense climate. Last December, in the pages of Vanity Fair, she described the social context across the Atlantic. “We left while the protests for George Floyd had just broken out “, she declared, while in France, “it was the dead calm (…) so destabilizing”. A more peaceful atmosphere which did not last, however. “And then, now, here too, things are troubled”, she continued, referring to the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), which dates back to October 16.
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias.
Photo credits: JACOVIDES-MOREAU / BESTIMAGE
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