![]() ![]() “Christine is just me choosing everything,” says the queer artist, and her genuine delight in her art is what makes Christine so magnetic as a performer. She’s a bona fide sensation in Europe (the Belgian gold disc of her 2014 debut album, Chaleur Humaine, hangs in the bathroom), and her path to success has already become something of a rock & roll fairy tale – replete with a clutch of kindly British drag queens taking a downcast Letissier into their London home and helping her find her real identity as Christine. On the verge of her first major American headlining tour – which kicks off tonight in Chicago – Letissier invites Rolling Stone to her quiet, airy house in Paris to talk about the events that transformed her, irrevocably, into her current alter ego. She said she drew hope from “all those who do their best whatever their job, whatever their difficulties, and who have neither violence nor hatred in them”, and praised “those also who deal with ecology and economy with lucidity, coherence, integrity, because unfortunately the ideology without vision of the global realities of the world aggravates a more-than-worrying situation.“Everything is wonderful,” says Christine and the Queens’ Héloïse Letissier, “but at the same time it’s been intense.” The French singer has just returned from a week of shows, TV appearances (including a talked-up cover of Beyoncé’s “Sorry” on the BBC) and festivals in London, after a whirlwind year that’s seen her duet live onstage with both Elton John and Madonna, the latter of whom even administered a ceremonial spanking to this eccentric, exhilarating pop star in the making. Remembering “happy moments” with her son, Thomas, and husband, Jacques Dutronc, from whom she is separated but maintains a close relationship, “does me a lot of good”, she said. ![]() The moments when I behaved badly were due to unconsciousness, ignorance, selfishness, whose trials are often the consequence.” She is also known for her acting, including a cameo in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1966 film Masculin Féminin, her writing and astrology.Īsked whether she had any regrets as she reflected on her life, Hardy said: “Life is an initiatory school where we learn through mistakes and trials that try to make us better understand what we had not understood until then. She claimed that 1988’s Décalages would be her final album, but she returned to music in the 90s, collaborating with Blur and Air, and releasing a string of new albums. A huge success, it put her at the forefront of the yé-yé pop phenomenon, albeit she would distance herself from that scene just a couple of years later as she made music with English producers and pursued commercial and creative independence. Hardy released her debut single, Tous les garçons et les filles, in 1962. She said her mother, suffering from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a neurological disorder, died by euthanasia “when she could not go any further in this horrible incurable disease”.įrançoise Hardy: Mon Amie la Rose – video Hardy said she would like to have the opportunity to choose to end her life, “but given my small notoriety, no one will want to run the risk of being removed from the medical order even more”. In the new interview, she said: “It is not for the doctors to accede to each request, but to shorten the unnecessary suffering of an incurable disease from the moment it becomes unbearable.” In May, she told Paris Match that “France is inhumane” for not legalising the procedure. She told the magazine that she was in favour of assisted suicide. ![]() She said: “My physical suffering has already been so terrible that I am afraid that death will force me to go through even more physical suffering.” She has previously said she is no longer able to sing. ![]() The interview was conducted by email due to Hardy’s difficulty speaking. But years of radiation and immunotherapy have caused Hardy immense pain, she said, making it difficult to swallow. ![]()
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