Perhaps only loyal fans of the talent of actress Romy Schneider are familiar with the name Daniel Byazini. Now only those who are interested in the life and creative heritage of the great actress know about him, but after all, Byazini was once a promising screenwriter. Below we will talk about the life of the Frenchman, his relationship with Romy Schneider and how his life happened after the death of his wife.
Starting a relationship with Romy Schneider
Prior to meeting the actress, Byazini worked at the Lira film studio, where he met Romy Schneider on the set of the film Train. He became her personal secretary and chauffeur back in the days when she was married to Harry Mayen. In 1973, they increasingly began to notice the couple together, and soon the actress divorced her husband. Daniel was considered a promising and very talented playwright. He was much younger than Romy, and, according to contemporaries, Daniel Byazini, whose photo you can see below, was very reminiscent of the young Alain Delon, the greatest love in the life of a movie star. It was Byazini who was able to at least slightly get the actress out of the depression that she fell into after the second breakup with Delon. In 1975, after two years of relationship, the couple got married.
Marriage with a great actress
After the relationship was formalized, the couple, it would seem, should have become even happier. But this did not happen, just a few weeks after the ceremony, the couple had a car accident, as a result of which Romy Schneider lost her second child. For Byazini, he could be the firstborn. The actress was going through a loss, as both of them dreamed of a child, and again began to get depressed - to work hard and drink a lot.
Eyewitnesses of their relationship indicate that Byazini was not tactful and sharply condemned the actress. Many of those who knew the couple did not like the Frenchman, considering him only a life-burner. It seemed that he needed a marriage with a star, only to spend her money with impunity. In 1980, the only film directed by Byazini was staged. Claude Saute, who often shot Schneider in his films, became the director of the film “Bad Son”.
Daughter and divorce
In 1977, after his wife recovered from the consequences of a serious operation, the first born of Byazini, the daughter of Sarah Magdalen, was born. The birth was difficult, it took a cesarean section, after which the baby lay in a special box for another two months. But it all ended happily, the girl was a welcome child for both parents. It seemed that finally the long-awaited happiness should come, but two years later, Romy's ex-husband committed suicide, and could not establish life without her.
And two years later, when Sarah was four, the couple divorced. There is an opinion that Daniel Byazini could not become a good husband, played novels behind his wife’s back, did not work, using Romy’s money. However, it is also known that Schneider herself began to drink again, embarked on dubious adventures, rolled countless scandals to her husband. In 1981, the couple was officially divorced, Schneider was carried away by a new man.
The tragedy after the divorce
After Daniel Byazini and Romy Schneider divorced, the children stayed with their father. And Byazini was left not only her own daughter, but also her son Schneider from her second marriage. David, by that time already a teenager, was very attached to his stepfather, was seriously worried about the divorce of the spouses. By the way, the boy changed the name of his father to the name of Byazini, as he truly loved his adoptive father. After the divorce, he insisted that he stay with Daniel, as he considered his mother’s act to be a betrayal and could hardly cope with the fact that the press began to persecute Romy Schneider.
So it was decided, the children stayed with Daniel, Romy flew away to star in a new picture. Brother and sister lived in the house of Byazini's parents in Saint-Germain-en-Lay. One day then, already fourteen-year-old David, climbing over a garden fence, fell and ran into the edge of the grill. The teenager died, which was a huge tragedy not only for Schneider, but also for Daniel, because the boy was almost his own son.
Raising a daughter
A year after the divorce and death of his son, in 1982, the life of Romy Schneider ended. Byazini raised his daughter in severity, he changed a lot and began to lead a completely different lifestyle. The girl was protected from the influence of bohemia and did not come into contact with the world of cinema.
She graduated from the Sorbonne School of Art, spent several years looking for her calling in galleries and museums, but soon went to America to study acting. Now Sarah is also an actress, she is busy in the theater and starred in several films. She has very few maternal traits, she looks more like a father. She left his last name, saying that she was a real Frenchwoman.
The book "My Romy"
In 1998, the world saw a book written by Daniel Byazini. “My Romy” - that is what he called his work. In it, the former playwright writes about his relationship with the star, about how their marriage developed.
Some chapters of the book are devoted to the feelings of the author, his thoughts about Schneider, but in general the publication sets out a picture of the actress's life. The book provoked a quarrel between Byazini and her daughter, who did not agree with a negative assessment of her mother's life. Sarah claimed that her father introduced Romy as a depressed woman, prone to alcoholism, while in life, the actress was a kind and bright man.
The Life Of Daniel Byazini
According to Daniel Byazini himself, his personal life after a divorce from Schneider and the tragedy experienced was quite successful. In 2003, he married Gabriel Heydrich. The couple lives in Ibiza, Daniel became the stepfather of his wife’s son from his first marriage. He maintains a rather warm relationship with his daughter Sarah, according to him, he sees in her "the fire peculiar to the mother." Now Byazini works as a realtor and does not seek to touch the world of cinema.