166In his book “Christophe, my unknown father” which comes out on August 31, Romain Vidal, son of the singer Christophe, gives the floor to the niece of the late singer. She makes terrible confessions about her end of life.
Romain Vidal was born from a brief adventure between Christophe et Michele Torr. Father and son rarely saw each other but Roman was very marked by the death of Christophe on April 16, 2020 following pulmonary emphysema, in the midst of a crisis of Covid. In a book to be published Thursday August 31, Romain Vidal returns to the death of his father and recounts the last hours of the artist, which he lived recluse and sick, before dying in the hospital of Brest. In this work, he questioned Cécile Vitra, niece of the deceased, who makes shocking revelations.
In April 2020, anxiety increased. Audrey, who had been his partner and remained his friend, his makeup artist, his assistant, knew nothing. To the point of being alarmed and talking about it to the mother of Lola, my half-sister. It was all the more distressing because Christophe no longer answered the phone. When we were finally able to enter his home, it was obvious that he had been alone and sick for several days. It was incredible, he was in a catastrophic state of health at that time.
Faced with the seriousness of his condition, the singer was urgently hospitalized. It is Cécile Vitra who warned Romain Vidal of the worrying state of health of Christophe "to prevent him from learning about it through the media”. But in 2020, the Covid-19 crisis was here. Hospitals were overbooked, particularly in Ile-de-France. Christophe was therefore transferred to the hospital Cavale-Blancheor a Brest, to be treated there. A few days later, the singer succumbed to the illness, leaving his family and loved ones behind.
In the last days, I kept telling myself without really believing it that my uncle, a great star adored by millions of admirers, was approaching a terrible end of life, far from everything, far from his family, far from the people he loved. He was going to die like an unfortunate person, just out of a desire to exclude. I couldn't believe it but it happened. What an indignity".
Amazing thing for a personality like Christophe, who was then struck by Covid and had first been taken care of in one of the best establishments in France – in Cochin, Paris. Why did you send him to another establishment in the region? It will always remain a painful mystery
No one had said goodbye to him during his lifetime, almost no one was there for a final farewell at the cemetery
Christophe was buried in an intimate ceremony at the cemetery Montparnasse, at a time when social distancing rules required funeral ceremonies with fewer than twenty guests.
