Eighteen years after winning Star Academy 4, no one has forgotten Gregory Lemarchal! The young boy, suffering from cystic fibrosis and who had gone to the end of the effort to make “his angel voice” triumph, is always remembered, despite an early death in 2007, at only 23 years old. It must be said that for all these years, his parents never gave up the fight against the disease who won, and bring his image and his story to life through the association that bears his name.
It is for this reason that both were guests of Faustine Bollaert’s show, It starts today, this Wednesday, October 5. In the company of patients who have received transplants or a new treatment for their illness, Pierre and Laurence Lemarchal spoke about their fight and what they bring to their daily lives. But when the presenter showed them images of their son, both broke down with emotion.
Presenting photos and videos retracing the entire career of Gregory Lemarchal, of his childhood at his three Olympias a few months before his deathincluding his superb performance in the final of the star Academythe short film has left Laurence speechless, extremely moved. Tears in her eyes, the mother then asked her husband to speak. Grateful that they”don’t look much at these pictures“, this one admitted, the trembling voice that they “stung” as always.
Trying to justify the dissemination of the photos, Faustine Bollaert then assured that these were “useful” because “we all appropriated it a little Grégory Lemarchal“. His mother, recovering from her emotion, then assured that “that’s what he wanted to convey. This is a great message of hope. It is not because we have a health problem, whatever it is, that we must forbid ourselves from dreaming. You have to do everything to achieve your dreams“.