On December 5, 2017, Johnny Hallyday passed away at the age of 74 after a battle with lung cancer. “Johnny Hallyday is gone. I write these words without believing it. And yet, it is true. My man is no more. He leaves us tonight as he lived throughout his life, with courage and dignity,” wrote Laeticia Hallyday in a statement. The rockstar left behind his four children: David, Laura, Jade, and Joy. Laeticia Hallyday regularly pays tribute to her husband on her social networks, as his absence remains very difficult to bear. Invited on RTL’s show “Laissez-vous tenter,” the mother of Jade and Joy had mentioned an “impossible” mourning.
“The most difficult thing is to continue living every day without him,” she explained. On Johnny’s 81st birthday, Laeticia wrote these words: “If I could, I would give him all the kisses in the world, I would hold him in an endless embrace, and if I could, I would tell him ‘I love you’ a million times more… But I had to learn since his departure to live differently, to live without him. I have learned what grief, mourning, real grief is.”
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This content is about the emotional tributes and memories shared by Laeticia Hallyday, the wife of the late French rockstar Johnny Hallyday, following his passing due to lung cancer.
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