"It’s over, it’s got results" : facing cancer, Florent Pagny ditched one of his most intimate habits

On Wednesday, April 5, fans of Florent Pagny will be able to discover the singer’s autobiography. in this book Pagny by Florent (published by Fayard) talks about his career as an artist, his personal life, as well as his fight against lung cancer since 2022. Florent Pagny announced on social networks and on his 60th birthday tour that he had contracted the disease. . The critic of Knowing How to Love was then forced to stop all his artistic activities. While there was optimism after the initial medical protocol, the singer broke the bad news in an interview with Sept à Huit on March 5.

“A week ago I found myself having a major coughing fit that reminded me of the beginning of this story. So I rushed to and from Buenos Aires to take pictures. The pictures aren’t very good, so I’ll be back in Paris in three days to see what’s going on. There is a fixed lymph node, which means there is a risk of metastasis. Maybe it’s just an infection, but at the same time, when you see the shape it has and how it’s marked… so I’m going back to Paris to do a biopsy to see what it is. This story sucks. It never stops. There is always something that reappears in the end. Last time there were white dots, now it’s a lymph node marking. I haven’t done immunotherapy treatment so I need to get back to it quickly. it is not clear“, she explained. Florent Pagny was invited to the show on Sunday, April 2 at 8:30 pm, to promote his autobiography, which he wrote in partnership with Emmanuelle Cosso. The singer took the opportunity to make an update on his state of health.”I relapsed. I coughed all night. And I got on the plane to check. Chemotherapy and then there you go. I’m in this clinical part, I’m going to do a third chemo… It’s working pretty well but I won’t quitshe admitted.

cover Pagny, by Florent A photograph of the artist smoking a cigarette challenged Laurent Delahousse. The journalist turned to his guest to learn more about this surprising choice while battling lung cancer. “It’s true that it can be annoying in one place, but it’s also something. When we got close to each other, a while ago we would always see me with the little cigarette butt in my mouth. It’s over, it won’t happen again, it’s over, and then well, it had consequences, because it’s true that somehow it’s connected to all of this.‘, he explained.

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