Mylène Farmer, everyone in the private sector? “I don’t cultivate schizophrenia”, how she spends her days

On September 27, 28 and October 1, after cancellations last summer following the riots that shook the country, Mylène Farmer will finally be back on stage. And at the Stade de France please! The opportunity for the icon, who is very rare in the media, to confide in Gala. The 62-year-old star even accepted a shoot inspired by photos of Marilyn Monroe taken by photographer Milton Greene!

“I don’t wake up and tell myself that I’m a myth!”

Very quickly questioned about the myth that she has become for many French people, she was not afraid to respond straight away: “My clips, shows and texts undoubtedly outline a universe. But I don’t wake up and tell myself that I’m a myth!”. And it’s up to her to soberly complete: “I rather wonder what I did to deserve so much love from the public. A feeling of illegitimacy sometimes overwhelms me”.

The interpreter of Disenchanted has also revealed to be the same on stage, and in life. “I do not cultivate schizophrenia. I do not hide behind my artist name. The best observers will tell you that I am the same in private life and in my work”, she confided. But then, how does Mylène Farmer define herself? “I am reserved by nature, but I can invite the intimate on stage. I am as extroverted as I am modest, as joyful as I am dark. It’s a mixture, a whole. And that’s me”.

And what about fame in all this? “Fame is part of my life, I’ve gotten used to it. But I don’t expose myself much, so as not to suffer anything and only live fully in selected moments. It’s all a question of dosage, in fact”explains Mylène Farmer, who now lives in Saint-Cloud after leaving Villa Montmorency, near the Bois de Boulogne, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

How does Mylène Farmer spend her days when she’s not making music?

Asked about the nature of her days when she is not making music in the studio or giving XXL concerts and she finds herself alone, Mylène Farmer said that she feels “rebuilt in silence”. And for her to specify: “I play sports, I work on my endurance, I go into the studio, I watch and feed the birds. I go to the cinema, I immerse myself in documentaries, I meet my closest friends…”. A lover of walking, she nevertheless revealed that this activity did not give her “no longer the same joy”. “I miss my dogs, I feel their absence in my bones”she conceded.