Estelle Lefébure and David Hallyday, a marriage struck by mourning: “My dad wasn’t there” – Télé 2 Semaines

On the day of her marriage to David Hallyday, September 15, 1989, Estelle Lefébure seemed to have everything to be happy. However, behind the radiant smile she displayed as she left the church, the 23-year-old model hid immense pain: her father, Gilles Lefébure, was dying in the hospital and could not attend the ceremony which took place. took place in the presence of the Hallyday clan.

Back to these images in the show What an era! this Saturday, May 30, she confides that she was not able to fully savor this moment. “There was of course a lot of happiness and a little sadness because my dad wasn’t there because he was sick, it’s a delicate moment,” she remembers with emotion.

Estelle Lefébure in mourning the day after her wedding to David Hallyday

Faced with the images of her wedding rebroadcast on France 2, Estelle Lefèbure explains that she still has good memories of this day. “There we are very happy…” comments Ilona’s mother and Emma Smet who explains that it was her paternal grandfather who led her to the altar, her father being hospitalized on the day.

To enjoy their wedding out of sight, the newlyweds had “gone very far away”, as she explains. Unfortunately, the actress’s father died the next day. “It’s true that there will always be this little hint…” she adds with emotion.

Estelle Lefébure: “I saw my dad for the last time just before my wedding…”

In his autobiography Best albumDavid Hallyday reveals that his ex-father-in-law died of devastating leukemia. “It was the shadow over this marriage,” he wrote. Estelle Lefébure had managed to see her father a few days before D-Day as she confided on the airwaves of France Bleu in 2025.

“I saw my dad for the last time just before my wedding. There was this immense joy of marrying the man I loved at that time, and at the same time I lost the other man in my life too,” she said.

Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.