Between and his daughter, it’s always been mad love. The singer, who died in 2017, even dedicated a song to him bearing his name, Laurain 1987, written and composed by Jean-Jacques Goldman. “And watching you grow will make me grow”sang the idol of young people, in this song which enjoyed immense success in the 1980s. But perhaps for Johnny Hallyday, the daughter he had in 1983 with Nathalie Baye grew up a little too quickly…
In an interview she gave on December 4, 2024 to Paris MatchLaura Smet indeed evokes the jealousy that her father felt, when she introduced him to her boyfriends. “Wow, boys, that was something, she smiled. When I started to fall in love, he didn’t accept it. It was crippling, he was hyper jealous. But either he accepted it or I left. I have very funny memories of when I introduced my friends to him. So, at the table and he wasn’t necessarily very friendly. When we ate, he observed them…” And Johnny Hallyday did not hold back, moreover, from giving a categorical opinion on the boys with whom she had fallen in love… “He gave me his verdict: ‘He’s too slow’, ‘He’s stupid’, ‘No, it’s okay, he’s nice’…”remembers Laura Smet, amused, to the weekly.
Johnny Hallyday really liked Raphaël
Raphaël Lancrey-Javal, who would become her husband, did not escape it. Like that day when he asked for her daughter’s hand… A frosty encounter, if we are to believe Laura Smet. “Raphaël, who wanted to do things right, went to ask for my hand. My father stared at him: ‘Are you still there?'”, smiles the actress, next to Paris Match. But fortunately, Johnny Hallyday really liked Raphaël according to the young forty-year-old. civilly on December 1, 2018 before a religious ceremony on June 15, 2019, and had a little boy, Léo, born on October 7, 2020.
In the columns of the magazine, Laura Smet provides proof that Johnny Hallyday really loved the man who became her husband at the time. A day, “he wanted to go shopping with my husband and me, she explains. He went into a store and bought her some great jackets. Raphaël, embarrassed, told me: ‘I can’t accept something like that.’ But I told him that if he didn’t accept, he was going to take it badly. It was touching because he wanted to please all the time…” No doubt, continues the actress, because we didn’t offer him anything when he was young.
