“The kind of guy to flirt with danger”

The late star singer Christophe, author of some memorable hits, passed away last year in his seventy-fourth year, in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic. He planned to deliver his memoirs. These will finally be published on April 7, by Editions Denoël. The opportunity for Paris Match to get closer to the one who knew him best: his wife, Véronique Bevilacqua, with whom he remained married even though they had been separated for twenty years. She has agreed to give up on their relationship as atypical as it is sulphurous. She first returns to their meeting, in a club in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, accompanied by her brother. The singer was meanwhile with a friend. The latter goes to see Véronique and invites her to the star’s table. But she hardly likes this way of doing things. “Already, I hated ‘Aline’. But this kind of approach, no thank you! If the guy is not able to move himself …”, she says, showing her strength of character of the time, when she was still only 17 years old.

She finally lets herself be seduced by this “small but well-built” man, who proudly displays a dandy look if not so bad. Christophe, very quickly full of feelings, then camps in the street of his beloved one. He paces under his window, hoping to find her. But for her part, she flirts with others. The work of undermining ends up working there again. But Véronique Belivacqua thunders: “When I moved to his home, I was not (…)