Sheila and Ringo married in 1973 and had a son, Ludovic, but their marriage did not last. Does the singer still talk to her ex-husband? She opens up about her relationship and her separation in an interview.
To celebrate his 60 year career, the queen of sisco Sheila delivered to our colleagues from Gala , in an interview published on Thursday, October 6, 2022. Annie Chancel, her real name, shared details about her life, she retraces all the stages she has gone through both in her career and in her personal life. She returns to the drama of the death of her son, for example. She also confides in her relationship with her first husband Ringo . But is she still in contact with him? We take stock.
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The 77-year-old singer explains that she no longer speaks to her ex-husband at all. She admits: ' Beyond all that, there's one thing I'll never forgive Ringo for: he didn't get on well with his son. He must have seen Ludo twice in his life, who didn't even have memories of holidays with his father. He never sought to see him again when custody was shared '. So she no longer has any contact with Ringo: ' I never saw him again after our divorce '.
Sheila also criticizes her former companion for not having attended the funeral of their son, Ludovic, who died of an overdose at the age of 42 in July 2017. In 2018, she said to Gala : ' I raised Ludovic without a father. I have always considered myself a single mother , he lost his son and he didn't even come to see him in the hospital, didn't attend his funeral. I never tried to reach him. I want him a lot '.
During the interview, Sheila reminisces about her entire history with Ringo. She tells : ' I found him handsome. He corresponded to my male ideal: tall, dark, dark… I paid more attention to the physical then to the intellect! “The singer explains that she pushed him to get into music” at first he didn't sing '. Le couple se marie in 1973 , ' I absolutely wanted a child. Once pregnant, things went wrong between us '. The artist realizes that his companion is not faithful: ' I discovered that I was cuckolded, deceived. Everyone knew about it except me! We broke up very quickly.'
She then opens up about the separation that she experienced well, it was ' a relief. I couldn't take the unbearable anymore. J I was disappointed, too: I hadn't married to get a divorce! After him, I lived my love life like a guy. I traveled, I remained single for a long time '. In 2016, guest on the show The sofa by Marc-Olivier Fogiel, the singer specified: ' It ended very badly, that's okay. But don't mess it up... It's been a nice story ' .
The queen of disco was surrounded: ' Sure, Ludo n'a pas eu de papa, more he had Yves, my second husband, who was a magnificent step-dad '. Her marriage to Yves Martin lasted from 2006 to 2016, the musician died in June 2021. Today, the 77-year-old singer confides: ' I am both very alone and very well accompanied by my collaborators. They are my pillars, my safeguards '. She is obviously thinking of the group H-Taag and its guitarist Eric Azhar.
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On her love and professional life, Sheila concludes: ' It's the lot of famous women : either men are scared or they feel suffocated! It's like that. In the end, I take from all this that we are always alone in life, even if we are more or less well accompanied '.
Source journaldesfemmes.fr