If one day you can no longer conciliate your career and your family life, what will you do?
"I would certainly abandon my singing career. It would break my heart for sure, but I don't want my child to be raised outside the environment of a home and family, like children of many artists."
We are interrupted by small sharp screaming sounds coming from the adjacent room. It is Barbara who is waking up. One has to see Petula taking her daughter in her arms, talking to her tenderly in French, rocking her. I have trouble imagining that this young mother (Petula turned 30 years old just last week) who is showing her motherly love to her child, is the same person who sings and dances every night on the stage of the Olympia. Claude Wolff during that time went to get a big stuffed rabbit and plays around with it to the greatest joy of Barbara. Yes, in fact, the Wolff family is a happy family.
A happy event.
Is it true that you are expecting a baby for next spring?
"Yes, it's true, and I wish with all my heart that it is a brother for Barbara!"
After the Olympia, what will you do?
"First I will tour in the south of France, afterwards we're going to Lebanon, then we'll go to America."
So you're leaving us!
"Oh no! France is now my country, and I enjoy it so much, I'm happy here."
Petula Clark is a great performer, an adorable mother and a charming wife but also an all around kind person.