Laeticia Hallyday’s interview on RTL, recorded in 2022, where she talks about Johnny Hallyday’s infidelities, has resurfaced on social media. However, this time her comments on the topic have quickly upset internet users.
“He was ‘the love of (her) life’,” as she put it, to the extent of forgiving all his transgressions, infidelities included. In an interview from 2022, Laeticia Hallyday opened up about her love story with Johnny Hallyday on RTL’s “Unexpected Journal” show. She discussed the inner work she did after the betrayals of her late husband. Three years later, an excerpt of this interview reappeared on social media. In the video shared by the Instagram account @editions_zolantondo a few days ago, Laeticia Hallyday recounts one of the infidelities committed by the father of Jade and Joy.
“I was truly responsible,” she asserted in the original interview. “I had forgotten I had a husband, that I was a woman, and I lost him because I had other battles to fight.” Indeed, she explained that at the time, she had to take care of her husband’s mother and great-grandmother and described herself as a “nurse to these fragile, battered, and vulnerable people.” “I forgot that I was also a wife to a man who needed me, who needed to be heard, who needed to be reassured,” she added. “And I wasn’t there for him at that moment, so I really forgot myself. I forgot myself in this couple. He resented me a lot for that and made me pay for it.”
But Laeticia Hallyday’s remarks have shocked several internet users. Indeed, in the comments, many do not understand the perspective of the Taulier’s widow, wondering why she positions herself as the guilty party when she is the victim of the singer’s infidelities. “Since when is a woman responsible for her husband’s infidelities?” one person questioned. “She was taking care of her husband’s mother, and meanwhile, he was cheating on her. She feels responsible. There’s something I don’t get,” another wrote. “To play the naive victim with so little finesse…how shameful,” added another internet user. Some people believed that Laeticia Hallyday was probably under control when she was with Johnny Hallyday.
“This statement is typical of a woman dependent on affection, it’s not love but a fear of abandonment,” another comment mentioned. Internet users also judged that if she forgave him, it was not out of love but for money. “Translation: ‘If I didn’t forgive, I would lose the jackpot of my life’…that’s the real version!” “Choosing to be repeatedly cheated on to maintain comfort is a choice,” “The merry widow,” can be read in the publication’s comments. At the time, the RTL host reacted as follows: “He made you pay in a way that is not necessarily acceptable.” But Laeticia Hallyday remains steadfast in her position: this trial was useful for her to work on herself and allowed her couple to find a fresh start.
