The children’s favorite singer has never really led a rock’n’roll life. But when Chantal Goya decides to host her friend Johnny Hallyday, her daily life is turned upside down. This is what she just said…
50 years of lovethat’s the name of the show that Chantal Goya is playing all over France at this very moment. Because for half a century the famous Marie-Rose has been enchanting young and old with her timeless hits like Pandi Panda, Snipe or even Puss in Boots. But beneath her wise exterior, Chantal Goya hides many secrets!
Johnny Hallyday ransacked Chantal Goya’s apartment: “We had put in a beautiful white carpet”
Guest on the set of C to youthe 83-year-old singer revealed that she hosted the late Johnny Hallyday for a time. Very friends in life, the two artists with opposing worlds were therefore roommates for several weeks. The wife and muse of Jean-Jacques Debout opened the doors of his old apartment, located rue des Saint-Pères in the very chic border between the 6th and 7th arrondissement of Paris, in Taulier… Who lived like the rockstar that he was!
“He lived at home, I remember rue des Saints-Pères, because Sylvie Vartan was in the United States so he said to me: ‘Can I come and live with you? I have an apartment that is under construction.’ I told him: ‘You’re coming!'”first told Chantal Goya. Before going into details: “‘Can I invite some friends?’ I said, ‘Of course.’ All of a sudden, in the rue des Saint-Pères which is narrow, I hear a noise… 80 bikers! They were everywhere! We had put in a beautiful white carpet, there were big footprints everywhere but I didn’t care…”
Chantal Goya “believed to die” on a motorbike with Johnny Hallyday: “I came back by metro”
And the one that Jean-Philippe Smet nicknamed “the Johnny Hallyday of children” – but was still mocked in the profession – had breathtaking adventures with her late friend. “And one day he said to me: ‘I’m going to go see Jacques Brel in Man of La Mancha’ (a musical comedy from the period, editor’s note). I said to him: ‘I’d like too, how do we get there?’, ‘We’re going there by motorbike'”remembered the mother of Jean-Paul and Clarisse on set. Before continuing, with a smile on your face: “He accelerated so much that I passed over him, I had already left before him and then in the end I came back by metro!”
“I thought I was going to die the day he took me on a motorbike to see Brel”had already admitted Chantal Goya on the set of Brand new last October. Before concluding, moved by remembering her missing friend: “He’s like a big brother, he’s part of the family.”
