In 2020, Michel Drucker came close to death. A streptococcus violently attacked his spleen and one of his kidneys before reaching part of his heart. ” I probably caught strep during dental work. I should have taken antibiotics before and after. It is imperative, especially if you have already had minor heart problems like me. Resistant, the streptococcus attacked all my organs… “, he confided in the columns of Paris Match before adding:” I underwent several esophageal ultrasounds, a horror! I’m on a 24-hour drip of antibiotics, but the germ is resisting. I have infective endocarditis. On September 20, Professor Hagège tells me that I have to operate, change the mitral valve. The surgeon will take advantage of this to reduce the heart muscle. He also tells me that I have three blocked coronaries and that a triple bypass is needed. I am stunned, given my lifestyle”.
At worst, the host of “Vivement Dimanche” was therefore obliged to undergo a major operation. An intervention that allowed him to find a second youth. ” After my triple bypass, the cardiologists told me, ‘You’re back for 200,000 kilometres!’ “, he declared on June 27 on France Info. Cheered up, the husband of Dany Saval then made a radical decision: That of leaving France 2 to join the 3rd channel. The goal ? Offer a new version of “Vivement Dimanche” to viewers.
“Deceased at the age of 8 months”
Interviewed by the magazine Gala in this return to school 2022, Michel Drucker took the opportunity to address a subject that is close to his heart: The loss of a loved one. Indeed, his older sister, born in 1939, ” died at the age of 8 months “. “My parents had gone to dinner with friends, and the person who was taking care of her put her in bed badly. When they got back, they found her dead, suffocated”. A terrible tragedy that shook the Drucker clan to the point that the host’s family “very scared talked about it”. This year, Monica would have been 83 “. Unfortunately, Michel Drucker did not have the opportunity to know her. For years, the latter has rested near his mother » in the cemetery of Eygalières, in Provence.
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