Comedian, passionate about stamps and, now, medical columnist! The popular Thierry Lhermitte has several strings to his bow. At 69, he joined the airwaves of France Inter to talk about medicine on the show Good for you of Ali Rebeihi, once a month. A subject that fascinates him and on which he informs himself carefully so as not to say nonsense on the air.
It’s in the pages of the newspaper The Parisian that we can discover the surprising passion of the actor of Les Bronzés for the medical field. If Thierry Lhermitte admits having been a “teenager on whom everything slips“and there was therefore no question of doing medicine in his youth, as he grew older he discovered a real curiosity for the subject. “The complexity of life amazes me“, he says, without expanding further on his approach. And do not believe that he is interested in science and medicine because he himself would be concerned by a medical problem, this gave rise rumors he wants to clear things up about.
Indeed, as related in the daily life of people thought that the commitment of Thierry Lhermitte “was due to his disease, prosopagnosia, or facial amnesia!” The reason ? “A joke on a radio show, a photo in a professor’s scanner explaining to him the motivational areas of the brain…“, precise The Parisian. If the former companion of Valérie Mairesse does not always recognize people in the street, it is not linked to an illness. “Except that I am not prosopagnosic, I am simply not a physiognomist, it can be very embarrassing but we are far from the disease“, thus clarifies Thierry Lhermitte, who underlines has already presented himself to an actor with whom he had nevertheless already shot!
If he hammers to anyone who wants to listen that he is not suffering, it is sometimes difficult to convince people. Asked by the president of an association for a boost, he played fair…”When I told her that I was not sick, the lady replied: ‘Yes, we all say that at the beginning…’“
Not content with being able to focus on the medical world on the radio, Thierry Lhermitte also continues his task as sponsor of the Foundation for Medical Research (FRM). After its passage on TF1 in April 2020, the organization says it collected in the hours that followed the tidy sum of … 125,000 euros in donations!