2023-06-10 09:00:18
Mnday January 25, 2022, Florent Pagny engaged in “a special announcement” on his Instagram account, which until then hosted duets with Patrick Fiori and covers of Paris Match : facing the camera, in front of his library, the interpreter of My freedom of thought announced to his fans to be suffering from a tumor “not operable” to the lung, which prevented him from honoring the dates of his 60th anniversary tour. Visibly tired, the artist now had to devote himself to a six-month protocol of chemotherapy and X-rays. “Me and my other half have to put ourselves in warrior mode to face this rather special ordeal. I’m sorry. When everything is settled, we will meet again, I will come back to finish what I started., he promised.
Announcing cancer is never easy. It is already necessary to manage to integrate for oneself the earthquake of the diagnosis, and to digest at the same time the modification of the image which one sends back to the others. For a public figure, this problem is increased tenfold by the oceanic character of the network with which one is in contact and by an iconic stature, which can easily be transformed into a straight jacket. In order not to handicap the statesman, François Mitterrand kept his cancer silent for a long time, before his cancer killed him. Same modesty for Brigitte Bardot. Florent Pagny, he chose simple and direct words, without hiding, using the power of social media dissemination to avoid having to repeat the same (painful) news to everyone.
His hopes, his mistakes, his depressions
Cannabis cantor, the bard in love with Patagonia embodies a change of attitude in the face of the disease: today, more and more stars are reporting on it, indulging in variable geometry on the details of the ordeal. Jean-Pierre Pernaut (prostate cancer), Evelyne Dhéliat (breast cancer), Bernard de La Villardière (melanoma in the left ear), Clémentine Célarié (colon cancer), and many others spoke about it. Agathe Auproux, a former columnist for “Touche pas à mon poste! even made a moving book (Everything’s goodAlbin Michel, 2019) of his fight against cancer of the lymphatic system.
But Florent Pagny is undeniably the one who introduced an upheaval of scale on the question, confiding in almost every stage of his fight, documenting his hopes, his mistakes as well as his depressions (“I was at the end of my life”). On May 10, 2022, after a few months of chemo, he reappeared on Instagram, beardless and hairless, emaciated, small glasses with tinted lenses on his nose. We feel that he has come a long way. “I changed my look a bit, it’s the treatment that wants that. The protocol worked rather well, since from the first two chemos, my tumor, which was as big as a kiwi, turned into a hazelnut. » Touched and touching, the singer thanks the public for the thousands of testimonies of love he has received.
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