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A true phenomenon of the 1960s, Sheila has managed to touch the French and many have dedicated a real cult to the singer. The one who knew how to operate disco change at the end of the 1970s returned to the disappointments that she was able to live with certain admirers and the consequences that this experiences had on her current life.
“People hidden in my parking lot”: Sheila fans have sometimes went far and that has not been without consequence
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“I’m afraid of the crowd since that” entrusted Sheila frankly In We redo the TV On RTL. The 79 -year -old singer was able to engage in Éric Dussart and Jade. She notably returned to the years of her greatest successes, during which His fans were ready to do anything to approach him. At the heart of what can be called “the sheila mania”, the one who lost her only child in 2017 could not simply Not living as an average person.
Sheila disguised herself to go out in the street with her son
Betrayed by Claude Carrère, her former agent and producer, Sheila was far too popular to lead a peaceful existence. “You can’t go out. […] I had people who slept on my doormat, I had people hidden in my parking lot. It was at that time that I bought myself a dog, a German shepherd, because I was afraid ” told the singer who frightened by these situations. “People want a memory. They catch a button, a thing, just because they want something from you.”
The one who has a terrible memory of her marriage to Ringo said he was forced to disguise in order to be able to go out on the street with her child. “When I had Ludo, I wanted to take out my kid. I wanted to take him to the acclimatization garden. I was putting a brown wig, glasses … I was someone completely different”. In order to protect his son from the misdeeds of notoriety, She had set up a ploy With her former press secretary, also mother of a little boy of the same age at this period: “She had Ludo, I had her son. Like that, if people recognized me, they had no photo of Ludo.”
Icon of yé-yé like Sylvie Vartan, Sheila also remembers rivalry which existed between his fans and those of the ex-wife of Johnny Hallyday, who did not hesitate to go so far as to fight and himself “fuck on the head “ At the exit of the TV sets that welcomed the two artists. All of this had consequences on his presentsince his fear of the crowd comes from his past experiences. “People are nice to me but I don’t go to department stores because of that” Admitted Sheila, who is therefore still strongly marked by what she went through During his wilder years.