Charlotte Gainsbourg returned to her long career and private life in the columns of Harper’s Bazaar magazine. She notably mentioned this terrible period during which her mother, Jane Birkin, “saw her anymore” …
The magazine Harper’s Bazaar devoted his brand new coverage of this January 23 to Charlotte Gainsbourg. The lovely actress returned to her 40th career, but also to the sudden death of her sister Kate Barry in 2013. A disappearance that deeply marked her family, notably her mother Jane Birkin.
Charlotte Gainsbourg faced with mourning: “My mother didn’t see us anymore“”
In the columns of Harper’s Bazaar, Charlotte Gainsbourg said that the death of her sister had provoked him all the upheavals, beyond mourning. She has partially taken refuge in work, which allowed her to give birth to her album Restreleased in 2017. “On the death of Kate, I had things to express. It was such a deflagration. It had to come out and I didn’t care to take the risk that it is mediocre. And in the end, I am proud of the disc“.
Jane Birkin reacted differently to the tragic disappearance of her daughter, caused by her fall from the balcony of her Parisian apartment. Charlotte Gainsbourg explained: “My mother, as one can imagine, died out. We came to see her, but she no longer saw us, we had become invisible“This complicated situation led Serge Gainsbourg’s daughter to make a radical decision, that of going into exile in the United States.”It was too much, I had to leave, I couldn’t do otherwise“She said.
Charlotte Gainsbourg, exiled to New York: “I saved my skin“”
The departure of Charlotte Gainsbourg for New York, acted 10 years ago, was saving for her. After the death of Kate Barry, the New York city was synonymous with a “reset“As she was able to entrust in the podcast Totemic broadcast by Radio France. “”I had the feeling of escaping me actually, to leave Paris, where my sister died six months before, my mother was obviously very bad, my sister Lou too ” . And add “But I saved my skin”.
The one who plays in around sixty films also revealed that this new life on Uncle Sam’s lands had been beneficial to him. “”I felt like I was reborn there (…) I discovered, at the age that I was – I was 42 years old – a new city and no landmark. It was a new youth“.
