Michel Sardou is a grandfather again! But what are the 77-year-old singer’s relationships with his grandchildren? Is he a doting grandpa… or quite the opposite?
Michel Sardou is now the grandfather of six grandchildren! Is the 77-year-old singer a grandpa involved in the education of this new generation? He spoke frankly to Pascal Praud on Europe 1 on August 26…
Michel Sardou, grandfather of six grandchildren: “I don’t know how to do it”
The interpreter of Love sickness is the father of four children, Sandrine and Cynthia, fruits of his former union with Françoise Pettré, and Romain and Davy, born of his love with his second wife, Élisabeth Haas. He is now grandfather of Loïs, Aliénor, Gabriel, Victor-Scott, Lucie… and a little sixth!
“I have one more now (…) who is four or five months old.“, he explained. But Michel Sardou is far from being a grandfather gaga over his grandchildren.”I don’t do much. I don’t know how to do it. He’s breastfed by his mother. I don’t know how to change a diaper. It’s not my generation.” he admitted.
Has he at least tried to pass on his passion for music to his grandchildren? Do they listen to the songs of their illustrious grandfather who recently said goodbye to the stage after a triumphant tour? Here again, the answer is negative: “I didn’t have the chance. We didn’t talk about it.“
Michel Sardou: his complicated relationship with his father: “There is nothing sadder in life…”
It must be said that the septuagenarian singer is already not extremely close to his own children. In the France 3 documentary, Sardou, self-portraithe admitted to having been a rather absent father: “I was a bit like mine. I spoke to them very little. I help them when I can, when they ask me. They ask me often, in fact.“.
Michel Sardou himself had a complicated relationship with his father, the singer and actor Fernand Sardou.There is nothing sadder in life than a comedian. (…) We never really exchanged anything. I regret (…) I would have loved to tell him things, talk with him, but well… He didn’t speak“, he also confided to Mireille Dumas.
