Dalida was born on January 17, 1933 and died 54 years later, on May 3, 1987. She was an essential artist, a unique personality that the public adored. As a singer above all, but also as an actress, Dalida knew how to shine like no other. Even today, the public is able to hum many of his titles. But now, she suffered from depression and as much to tell you that at the time, this kind of pathology was not necessarily taken seriously. Orlando’s big sister then ended up deciding to end her life. It was terrible for fans and relatives of the star to learn of his death.
Her little brother and producer, Orlando, was very close to her. Even today, he is one of the guarantors of Dalida’s heritage and its memory. And this April 12, he was invited to talk about her on the set of C to youon France 5. Objeko tells you everything!
Dalida took with her heavy secrets
By disappearing, Dalida obviously took secrets with her. But no doubt secrets his brother, Orlando, knew. As the anniversary of her death approached, he was therefore ready to evoke the memory of his sister on television. As our colleagues from the magazine remind us Closer, on May 3, 2022 it will be 35 years since Dalida left us. On the set of C to you, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine and her teams are therefore particularly moved. But they’re also determined to get scoops from Orlando.
If secrets are revealed, other secrets still remain intact. Some things that Dalida confided to her brother and producer are therefore still real mysteries. Because such was the will of the star. But for others, she therefore gave permission to her brother to talk about it, once she was no longer there to hear them. As he said then on the set of C to you, Orlando had at heart to respect the last wishes of his big sister. Thus, if he mentions his unwanted pregnancy and his abortion, Objeko don’t hide from you that it’s because this story went wrong…
An unexpected pregnancy, an abortion that goes wrong
The journalists of C to you ask Orlando about the song « He had just turned 18 “. According to them, the lyrics of Dalida’s song revealed much more about her private life than she was willing to admit. On this point, Orlando is formal, it was a pure coincidence. But nevertheless a happy coincidence since it is indeed several real elements of his life that are found in this title.
“When she sang this song, everyone believed it was written thanks to her love with the young man, it was totally a coincidence. You know, there were only two people who knew about this story: me and my cousin Rosie. My mother didn’t know it, my brother didn’t know it. She didn’t tell anyone she was pregnant. Even the young man never knew. Maybe he found out later when the book came out. But I tell you: he never knew that Dalida was expecting a child. »said Orlando at the time.
“She had made the decision that our mother shouldn’t know about it. So every song that can make you think of it is pure luck. The songwriters couldn’t have known. But sometimes, chance does things well. When she left, she whispered to me the things that I could reveal and those that I had no right to say. These were his last wishes. And at that time, when I wrote the book, I had to talk about it because her abortion went very badly. She could never be a mother. I had to write it in the book, but no one knew about it before. »added the little brother of Dalida.
In effect, Objeko told you above, this abortion went badly. It was another era, other customs. By aborting, Dalida knew then that she was taking great risks for her health. And if she believed that everything had gone well, she realized that her abortion had finally made her sterile. Orlando thus evokes the suffering of his sister for never having become a mother, in the pages of his book.
“Dalida was an avant-garde. She was the first of the first times, in several different fields. »
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