Approaching her 80th anniversary, Sheila confides in her career and her private life. The star knows it: even in the grave, the rumor on her supposed transidentity will continue …
It was at the microphone of M Radio that Sheila once again agreed to return to the story that darkened her life for many years: the rumor, launched by her former manager, who made her a man.
Sheila, a man? The rumor that persists
Asked about the repercussions of such a legend, Sheila did not mince words. “You know about ‘Coming from elsewhere’, I had made a song called ‘La Rumor’. It was really my story. And I did it compared to social networks, to explain to people that rumor is not just that it is said like that to have fun and say a bitch on his neighbor opposite”she first chanted.
And Sheila, whose real name Annie Chancel, to complete with exasperation: “A rumor, she never leaves you. Me, the day I am going to die, it is in a very long time, we will say ‘but I have known the doctor who …’. Because it is like that, because it is part of the story … It’s ridiculous, obviously, but does not prevent me from rotting 40 years of my life.” The interpreter of Space And The school is finished So take the thing with much less perspective and amusement than his famous consister Amanda Lear.
“”It is the most difficult event of my career and my family life “
This is not the first time that Sheila, who will celebrate her 80th birthday on August 16, returns to this rumor. Already in Schnockshe said that her ex-manager was at the origin of what we will say. “He claimed that as long as we talked about me, it was good”she said. “The joke has lasted 40 years. This is the most difficult event in my career and my family life.”
“When the newspaper title ‘Sheila risks becoming a man’, it is displayed throughout France. Beyond the shock, we touched my intimacy”explained the mother of the late Ludovic Chancel. “We talk about sex at a time when the subject is taboo: we wonder if we can get pregnant with a simple kiss. Imagine the reaction of my parents: they have only one girl and we pretend that he is a man. Their friends of always ask them if it is true”she completed.
