In 1972, Johnny Hallyday, who had become a father six years earlier, met Nanette Workman, a singer of American origin who would turn his life upside down.
So in a relationship with Sylvie Vartanthe Idol of young people begins his Johnny Circus tour accompanied by his mistress.
Johnny Hallyday: this affair that made him lose his head
« They had an affair that must have spanned two years. There was no one to stop the otherexplains his biographer Gilles Lhote in the Netflix series Johnny by Johnny. There was only one rule: there was none. ».
Statements confirmed by Patrick Mahé, editor-in-chief of Paris Match which confirms that this “Devil’s Beauty” had a certain “taste for prohibited products”.
And the journalist adds: « She will quite quickly make challenges between Johnny and her, where they make each other lines [de cocaïne]. They’re both going to screw up a bit.”
When Johnny and Nanette “played” Russian roulette
Asked about these “excesses of all kinds”, Johnny Hallyday will confirm the facts, revealing in passing thathe happened to play Russian roulette with Nanette Workman. “Fortunately, the ball was not in the right hole”, he then quipped.
For her part, the chorister, now 76, assures us that she was only looking for « fun », from ” pleasure “ and of “love”.
“He was an extremely handsome, kind, charming man, she then explained. It wasn’t really well received by the French, because he was still married. His fans didn’t like it.”
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