Returning to France to be treated for lung cancer, the singer intends to return to the stage next summer. In the meantime, he will publish his autobiography.
Par Marc Fourny
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Pit’s a question of sinking into gloomy… Florent Pagny keeps fit and wants to let it be known. After announcing, this Sunday March 5, on TF1, that he was being treated for a lymph node at risk, following his lung cancer, the singer faces and keeps his spirits up.
He thus appeared, from Monday, alongside his wife Azucena at the McCartney show, both to see their daughter Aël on the podium and to reassure his many fans, worried about a possible recurrence.
If he continues to be treated, the singer does not intend to modify his agenda, which will be full for the next few months. On April 5, he will publish his autobiography, Pagny by Florentat Fayard, in which he will return, in detail, to his life and his career.
A book wanted by the artist, even if it almost did not happen, specifies Fayard. He will discuss his past “as a hyperactive child, his childhood dreams, slaps and tears, highs and very lows, passionate loves and friendships, Vanessa Paradis, Johnny, Coluche…” Without forgetting Azucena, his pillar, the woman who has shared his life for thirty years.
“He is in great shape”
Florent Pagny will then return to the stage, an appointment that he intends to ensure, with festivals planned from the end of June, starting with the Arena of Nîmes with Zazie, then dates throughout France: Louhans, Nancy, Béziers , Ajaccio, Colmar…
For the moment, no counter-order, as confirmed by producers and turners in the newspaper The Parisian. “Everything is going well, everything is fine, he is in great shape! ”said her friend Madeu Gonzalez, who programs the De fil en musique festival, in Tarbes, where Pagny is expected next July.
“Some media immediately published morbid and false information about his condition and this caused panic among people. I’m pissed, precisely because Florent is better. I often have him on the phone…”
Freedom
In the show seven to eight, Sunday on TF1, the singer admitted that he had probably been negligent in not following the advice of doctors who had prescribed him immunotherapy after being treated with chemo for his lung cancer last year.
Once he was back in shape in September, he took off and headed for Patagonia to enjoy the freedom he values so much, a way of not letting himself be dominated by the disease… Which suddenly came to his mind.
“If I had been in France, I might not have this ganglion that appears like that, and if I had followed the planned program maybe… It’s a bit my fault, he admits. My first treatment went quite well, if I have to take it again, I will take it again. »
“If I had been in France, I might not have this ganglion. It’s a bit my fault.”
Patagonia, January 2023. #FlorentPagny announces “not terrible images” on the scanner. He must resume his immunotherapy treatment, interrupted when he left France 5 months ago. pic.twitter.com/iYib2KOz5K
— Seven to Eight (@7a8) March 5, 2023
Which will not prevent him from finding his audience. “Johnny was making the rounds of the Vieilles Canailles [avec Jacques Dutronc et Eddy Mitchell en 2017, NDLR] and he was on chemo. You can do it, it’s just that at times, you have to give yourself a little time to regain your strength…”