A star who does not have his tongue in his pocket. This Sunday, June 18, Amanda Lear was the guest of the show Seven to Eight which dedicated her “portrait of the week” on TF1. Interviewed by journalist Audrey Crespo-Mara, the famous artist delivered rare secrets about the secrets of her life.
The only daughter of an officer father in the British Navy and an Asian mother, Amanda Lear was marked by the break-up of her parents. “That’s why I don’t believe in the couple very much”, she blurts out before evoking her complexes, mimicking her cheekbones compared to “door handles” which she did not appreciate. “When I started modeling, I realized that actually what people were looking for was that,” alluding to her unique physique.
Famous for her singular voice and her figure, Amanda Lear knew how to put her charm forward on the covers of magazines. The interpreter of Follow Me did not hesitate to cultivate his ambiguity between the feminine and masculine gender. “I play it and I have a lot of fun with it. Of course, I didn’t realize that it was all a bit crazy”.
However, the actress and member of the Big Heads recognizes that her physique has allowed her to attract the attention of the public and to sell millions of records. “They don’t just buy a record because the music is good, but they are fascinated by the personality of the singer or singer.” Among her admirers and men in her life, one of them played a big role in the career of Amanda Lear.
A model in her early days, Amanda Lear was a young Fine Arts student when she met the Spanish painter Salvador Dali in the 1960s. The young woman then became the famous artist’s muse and regularly appeared in public alongside him. . “Being with him all the time for 15-16 years created a legend,” she said, referring to her threesome with the sculptor, in a relationship at that time with his wife. Gala.
“This threesome has people talking. ‘Who does what? Is she a lesbian? Is it threesomes?'” she continued without filter. The opportunity also to restore the truth about their alleged life in three. “The truth was very simple: Dali was impotent, so there was no sex at all and he was interested in having a young muse. He needs that presence.” . The actress and singer has also been talked about for her closeness to younger men. But, is the disco icon still a heart to take?
The one who defines herself as the “Greta Garbo of the Luberon” likes to joke about her love life. “For the moment, I’m having fun. I have very young friends all around me, who laugh with me and it’s very important”, she jokes in front of the camera in the TF1 show.
While Audrey Crespo-Mara reminds her that we often see her in the company of young men in photos in the media and on social networks, the singer takes the opportunity to make a point. “I don’t flirt at all, I assure you. It’s them who come to me,” she admits, laughing. “Curiously, now that the store is closed, there is a new generation of young people who are very attracted to older women.”
Using humor as “a weapon of seduction”, Amanda Lear nevertheless reveals to be happy in her single life. “I am very lonely, solitude is wonderful. It is freedom. To be alone is to be free”, says the olive grower who lives alone in Provence “with my cats, my olive trees, my painting”. It is therefore far from the capital that the disco star intends to live his last days in the south.
