On Friday April 22, 2022, Orlando was interviewed by France Sunday on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the death of his famous sister, Dalida. He spoke of the singer’s childhood, her career but also her discomfort, which led her to kill herself on March 3, 1987, at the age of 54.
In 1987, Dalida chose to commit suicide by ingesting large doses of drugs and whisky. The 54-year-old artist was then a huge star. “She wanted to leave in full glory, in full beauty. She didn’t want time to do its work on her“, said his brother Orlando on April 12, on the set of C to you. This time it’s in the columns of France Sunday that the producer returned with emotion to the journey of his sister. He confided in particular on the months which preceded the suicide of the interpreter Gigi the amorous, and on the reasons that led her to take action. “For a year it had been darker and meals were scarce. The trials had consumed her. Once again, she wanted to take her destiny into her own hands to be around us like stardust.“, he recalled.
Dalida plagued by loneliness
According to Orlando, Dalida had felt bad about herself for a long time. “If Dalida succeeded in her career, she missed her private life”, summed up the producer. As a reminder, the singer first had to deal with the suicide of her companion Luigi Tenco, in 1967. And three years later, her first husband, Lucien Morisse, also killed himself. Moreover, after an abortion carried out clandestinely in Italy, Dalida became sterile. And for her, arriving in her fifties without having given birth was very difficult to live with.
According to Orlando, Dalida thought about adopting a child, but very quickly gave up the idea. “She thought about it before giving up“, he said before explaining: “Because of his profession, she was afraid of not raising him as he deserved, with a stable man by his side“. “She was coming to an age, childlesswhere we become aware of this loneliness, with dark thoughts“, he finally summed up. A loneliness which, for the singer, ended up being too painful to bear.