It was her wish to be alone for one evening: Jane Birkin’s daughters first comment on the circumstances of their mother’s death.
Did she know she was going to die? Jane Birkin (1946-2023) passed away on her own last Sunday. This is announced by the daughters of the singer, actress and style icon, Charlotte Gainsbourg (51) and Lou Doillon (40), in a statement that, among other things, The statement said that on Saturday night, after years of around-the-clock care, Birkin wished she could once again spend an evening alone in her Paris apartment. It was to be the last evening of her life.
An everlasting love
The Anglo-French icon was diagnosed with blood cancer in 1998. According to the family, what followed was a “bitter battle” against the devastating diagnosis and its serious consequences. In 2021 she suffered a stroke that threw her back again. The public in France and around the world suffered with the woman everyone loved.
Relatives report that Jane Birkin has recently regained courage. A few days before her death, she started walking exercises and thought about performing again. With a bang, the petite singer was in the spotlight of world public opinion in 1969. At that time she mixed the world with her erotic world hit “Je t’aime … mon non plus”, which she breathed into the microphone with her colleague and then partner Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991). Gainsbourg dedicated his last album to her in 1990 before he died in 1991.
Source: Stern
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