Julien Clerc, who releases a new album entitled “A life”, returned to his family life in “Paris Match”. The 77-year-old singer confided in the adoption of the daughter of Miou-Miou and Patrick Dewaere, who marked him forever …
At 77, Julien Clerc is the happy father of five children: Angèle and Jeanne whom he had with Miou-Miou, vanilla and Barnabé, born of his idyll with Virginie Coupérie-Eiffel, and Léonard, her youngest, born of her union with the novelist Hélène Grémillon. The adored singer of the French, who releases his brand new album on May 23 A lifemade some secrets about his family to Paris Match …
Why did Julien Clerc adopt Miou-Miou’s daughter? “It only remained to assume …”
Linterprère de My preference saw his family recomposed in the mid-1970s, when he started a relationship with actress Miou-Miou, already a mother of a little girl born from her loves with actor Patrick Dewaere.
“I decided to raise it, because otherwise she would have grown up without father. (Patrick Dewaere, editor’s note) had been very clear: he wanted not to have children, so he had decided to cut once and for all the link that connected him to Angèle “said Julien Clerc. And it is up to him to complete: “I only had to assume as a man and to raise this child. I learned a lot thanks to her. We made an interesting path of love, she and I, dotted with pitfalls”.
It was the girl herself who asked her to adopt her in 1992, ten years after the suicide of her biological father. “The memory is intact. We were in the street, we came back to do shopping for dinner and she asked me: ‘Dad, would you like to adopt me?’ Pff!he told our colleagues.
Julien Clerc, a strict dad with his children? “I was steep”
Since then, the half-sister of Lola Dewaere bears the name of Angèle Herry-Leclerc. A consecration for Julien Clerc who “Considered himself as his father very quickly”. “She first called me Julien, then dad”had he said, always in Paris Matchin 2011. Having become a screenwriter after a brief passage in front of the camera, she works today for famous television fictions like Julie Lescaut,, Nina and more recently The art of crime. On the private side, she has been married to her partner since 2019. Together, they adopted a little girl in 2015.
Asked about his authorship, Julien Clerc confessed not to have been the same father for his elders and for his last little ones. “I softened, inevitably. When I was younger, I was more abrupt”he revealed. Before concluding: “It must be said that I was getting out of an obvious father, even if I have a lot of tender memories with him. Angèle and Jeanne necessarily wiped the plaster more than the others. But hey, I had to be a funny bird …”.
