Guest on the show We are live on March 5, 2022 as part of the promotion of his new album France, Pascal Obispo had a moving thought for his friend Florent Pagny who is currently suffering from lung cancer. Very present for the coach of The Voice who is one of his closest friends, the performer of the title Fan could not help but send him a few words of support during the show. “I hug him. I know tomorrow there is still a third series of treatments and I think very strongly of him.” he confided, very touched.
In addition, Pascal Obispo indicated that Florent Pagny was going to participate in the concert United for Ukraine organized for the benefit of the Red Cross which will be broadcast simultaneously on France 2 and France Inter on March 8. “He will also sing, we will sing in duet on Tuesday. I’m happy to find him. He will sing on Tuesday for Ukraine.” A special evening presented by Nagui and Leïla Kaddour to which many artists are invited, including Pascal Obispo, Clara Luciani, Indochine, Zazie, Julien Clerc, Carla Bruni, Jane Birkin, Angélique Kidjo and Barbara Pravi and Sofiane Pamart. Florent Pagny also decided to join the event despite his state of health which forced him to recently cancel his own tour.
On January 25 on Instagram, the interpreter of the title And one day a woman announced that he had an inoperable tumor in his lungs. “I have to make a somewhat special announcement, I won’t be able to finish my 60th anniversary tour. I have to cancel all of my concerts due to a health problem. In effect, I was just diagnosed with a tumor in the lung, a not very sympathetic cancerous tumor which cannot be operated on“, he explained in a video posted on his Instagram account.
Interviewed by Gilles Bouleau during his visit to TF1 20H in February 2022, Azucena’s husband had announced that he was going to start six months of chemotherapy in order to fight his illness. “I still have six months of chemo so I don’t know how I’ll end up. For the moment, the premiere is going well, but anything can happen too. Maybe in May, I’m impeccable, maybe I’m tired and then here we go, we’ll organize” he had explained.
The show On est en direct attracted 742,000 viewers, or 16.5% of the total public.