Charlotte Gainsbourg leaves Paris for England after mother’s death

The actor and singer appeared on the program’s Saturday, Nov. 7, episode, in which Nagui interviews a personality each week about the successes and failures that built their life. Gainsbourg was promoting “L’Affaire Marie-Claire,” which was released in theaters on Nov. 4.

Gainsbourg Recounts Her Attachment to Serge Gainsbourg and Her Mother’s Envy

During the exchange, Nagui mentioned Gainsbourg’s famous parents, Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg. Close to and admiring of her father, who died when she was 19, she acknowledged that her mother sometimes resented that bond. “It’s true there was only a bit for my father, but because I lost him so young,” she said. In her “perpetual love for [her] father,” Gainsbourg made her mother feel a form of abandonment: “She thought there was only room for one person.”

Jane Birkin’s Final Decade and Death in 2023

Gainsbourg, the wife of Yvan Attal, also spoke about the last decade of her mother’s life, marked by health problems. “When I think of the last ten years of illness where she fought with the strength of a goddess,” she said. Jane Birkin died on July 16, 2023, at age 76, from the consequences of a stroke, at a time when her health was already very fragile.

Gainsbourg said she still struggles to accept her mother’s death and “would like to be able to keep” talking with her. “She is just a model of a woman, a model of life, a model of energy,” she said.

Why She Left the French Capital

After her mother’s death, Gainsbourg took a radical decision and left the capital, and even the country. “I wasn’t well in Paris,” she told Madame Figaro. It was in England that she put down her bags with her daughter: “I wanted to settle in a neighborhood I didn’t know too well, and in the end I found myself in the west of the city, where my uncle lived. When I was little, I spent my time at his place or at my grandmother’s.”

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Jane Birkin died on July 16, 2023, at the age of 76, from the consequences of a stroke, after years of fragile health.

“I would like to be able to keep talking to her,” Gainsbourg said of her mother.

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