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Exclusive – For their first-ever interview, Jade and Joy Hallyday (ages 19 and 15) hosted Paris Match at their home in Los Angeles, where they live with their mother Laeticia Hallyday.
Her life on the West Coast, on the one hand at university, on the other in high school, her memories of her legendary father Johnny, six years after his death, her (non-)relationships with David and Laura… So many topics that Jade and her sister Joy were open about Paris Match.
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When asked whether they are close to their godparents, honesty is also required here. ” Which one? For me it was always Jean Reno and Marie Poniatowski. “For Joy: Maxime Nucci and Hélène Darroze,” answers Jade, who regularly spends time with her godmother when she is in France.
Jade in the arms of Luana Belmondo, Laeticia Hallyday and Zofia Reno (Jean Reno’s wife) in Paris in 2008. © ANGELI-JACOVIDES / BESTIMAGE
Her younger sister adds bluntly: “Before I had another godfather, Jean-Claude Darmon, and Jade had another godmother, Luana Belmondo, but we had to change because they let us down.” When we saw her for the first time since After Papa’s death last summer at Claude Lelouch’s wedding, they didn’t even greet us. »
They stopped giving news, went away, deleted
Jade Hallyday
Joy admits that “many” turned their backs on her after her father’s death, including “people we saw almost every day and went on vacation with.” A sad observation shared by her eldest: “From one day to the next, after Dad left, they stopped giving news, disappeared, deleted…”
You can find the entire interview with Jade and Joy Hallyday for Paris Match here.