The cause of her death was not specified but Jane Birkin had been in poor health for several years. A sentence dropped in 2013 resonates particularly today.
END May 2023, Jane Birkin announced the cancellation of her concerts scheduled for this summer. She explained in a communicated need a “little time to be able to be on stage again”. Life will not have given him the possibility. found died at her home on Sunday July 16, 2023, the singer aged 76 years old had a poor health since a long time. In 1998the doctors him diagnose leukemia : “It was not a very painful cancer, leukemia is a fairly common disease” she commented courageously to our colleagues from Gala. Supported by her daughters Lou, Charlotte and Kateshe who “did not see how to get out of it” overcome the disease. Life offers him a little respite until 2012 where she suffers from dysimunitary pleuropericarditis and is forced to postpone her tour to early 2013. “Four months of going back and forth to the hospital, chain bronchitis, water in the lungs, around the heart, there was always something wrong” detailed the singer to the Parisian in January 2013. That year she loses his daughter Kate Barry who dies at 46, after falling four stories from his apartment window. And the cancer recur. She was hospitalized for 18 months.
“I realized that I only had 10 years ahead of me”
“I realized that I only had ten years ahead of me. If I do like mom, maybe a little more. But there’s not a moment to lose” she told Paris Match. Doctors succeed in “to go out” of the disease. “THE comforting medicine was going to see three films a day, spending my evenings at the theater, seeing other people’s stories so as not to be in mine. I firmly believe that beautiful things can help to live“ continued the favorite Englishwoman of the French. Was she paying for a life of excess? “Excesses, me? Never! Leukemia has nothing to do with it” she defended herself. After cancer, Jane Birkin do one stroke in August 2021. “Intensive care, I know by heart. French public hospitals are brilliant, the nurses adorable. In Avicenne, my preferred hospital in Bobigny, I’m practically home” she confided to Parisian in January 2022. She is recovering but a scapula fracture in march 2023 immobilizes it and prevents it from finding its audience. “I love being with you so much. I miss you. See you soon, see you this fall“ she launched at the end of her press release in May. The last words left to his many fans.