“The polyarthritis was very, very painful for him and then my mum got sick with Parkinson’s disease. I think it kicked him. He said to himself that he was not able to manage all that “On the set of Chez Jordan, this Tuesday January 18, Pascal Soetens makes terrible confidences about his parents… In 2020, he had mentioned the suicide of his father on Non Stop People. A death he had kept to himself for nearly seven years…
“It’s very difficult because she’s starting to walk less, she has a lot of trouble expressing herself and is shaking a lot,” confides the former TF1 star. He is very worried about the state of his mother’s health. Today, she is in a retirement home. She has had Parkinson’s disease for many years. He goes to see her “as often as possible” but he is afraid for her morale which continues to weaken. She is very isolated due to the sanitary situation which does not help at all. “She said to me: Pascal, I’m fed up, I want to leave. What is this life? We’re locked up, the state prevents us from going out, from moving, we’re all vaccinated, but I can’t go see my neighbor who isn’t Covid and I’m forced to stay locked up in a 15 square meter room . It’s terrible for the elderly,” says Pascal Soetens. His mother even sent a message to Emmanuel Macron last year saying: “We are not
happy after you” through the Instagram account of Loucas and Enzo’s dad.
“I tell her that it will pass and she says to me: I hope that I will leave, I do not want to experience this. My mother lived through the war but she doesn’t want to know that. She said to me: This is not the end of life that I wanted” saddens Pascal Soetens in distress. The death of his father also upset him a lot. Since his departure, he has guaranteed to be ready for his mother’s “big departure”. “It’s very, very hard seeing your parents like that. I don’t wish anyone to go through this, but it’s part of life’s trials. »
See also: