“They had the decency to tear each other apart, despite themselves, after Johnny’s death. Maybe when their father left, they pretended, and we won’t make it.” Terrible comparison for Anouchka Delon than that made with the Hallyday clan. Guest of the France Inter morning show, the star’s daughter responded with great emotion to Léa Salamé. A twenty-five minute interview in which she returns to her brothers’ accusations. But also on the situation of his father who no longer wants to be treated and would like, even if it seems very compromised, to be “let him die in peace”. “In 2019 your father declared: “I wouldn’t want my children to tear each other apart like the Hallydays. It’s a failure,” says the journalist to Anouchka Delon. “Yes, full,” she replies.
After two months of a family conflict, Anouchka Delon regrets not having been able to manage it internally: “We could have done this off camera. These are things that should have stayed with the family and not been unpacked for the whole world to see. But at some point I have to come and talk, to be there for myself. These last few months I have been very affected.”
Alain Delon’s daughter said she had been living “hell” for several weeks, caused by her family problems and her 4-year-old son’s kidney disease. “When I’m at my father’s house, I’m worried about my son, and when I’m with my son, I’m worried about my father,” she says.
The 33-year-old actress has been accused for several months by her two brothers, Anthony and Alain-Fabien, of manipulating their father and of not respecting his last wishes, that is to say, of dying at his home in Douchy. Faced with these accusations, Anouchka said she was horrified: “I come across as daddy’s little girl, rich, venal who attacks her father (…) but there is so much ego in us.”
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Speaking of weapons, Alain Delon’s daughter returned to the arsenal seized by the courts in the Douchy home. She explains that she and her brothers were raised in this atmosphere. “It’s almost a way of life for my father, it’s his passion. We grew up there,” she admits. Before specifying that she is now accompanied by a bodyguard when she goes to Alain Delon. Because she claims to have received threats concerning her, but also concerning her own son who, she says, suffers from kidney disease. A few days ago, she admitted that her two brothers walk around armed on the property. Through her lawyer, she also said she was relieved that the weapons had disappeared from Douchy.
To return to the war which pits her against these brothers, she justifies her position. According to her, the question of whether Alain Delon should end his life in France or in Switzerland necessarily arose. “He has been living between Switzerland and France for 5 years,” she says. Before adding: “I feel like I’m in a bad movie. I don’t know how we got here.”
As a reminder, Anouchka Delon will receive 50% of her father’s inheritance, the rest will be divided between the two brothers. “I had more luck than my brothers in these relationships, I understand that they suffer but that is not a reason to make me suffer and my father suffer,” explains Anouchka Delon, recognizing that there is suffered moral and physical violence during his childhood. “My brothers made me carry the weight of guilt for their bad relationship with their father for a long time,” she believes. Before discussing the heartbreak that this situation causes in Alain Delon who sees that “things are rotten in the bud and that he has not been able to bring us together”.
Asked about her father’s condition, she cleverly calls Léa Salamé to witness: “You got him on the phone, right? How did you find it? » The journalist then recognizes that Alain Delon has difficulty speaking, but that he has not lost his mind.
The star’s daughter finally recognizes it, and undoubtedly deplores it, her father no longer wants to express himself publicly. She regrets, moved, that in the face of this silence, “we are destroying a myth, that of my father. It’s unfair and indecent.”
