Was the American interview at the end of "La Vie En Rose" real?

In one of the final scenes of the Oscar-winning Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose (2007), a now elderly Edith is sitting on a beach and approached by an American reporter conducting an interview for an American magazine.

A transcript of the interview can be seen here.

Was this interview real, and were Edith Piaf's notoriously pithy answers to them real?

Best Answer

According to this interview with the director Olivier Dahan in The Villanovan, the scene was invented, but the interview appears to be real:

Natalie Smith: There is one scene that occurs between Edith and a reporter on a beach in California that you said was fictional, while everything else in the film really happened. Why did you include it?

Olivier Dahan: The interview was real. Ninety-nine percent of the film was true, except for the last sequence on the beach. This I just imagined. Maybe at this point I needed something outside the balconies of the theatre because so much of it was dark.