Every Sunday, Frédéric Lopez invites three celebrities to the countryside, for a friendly weekend full of secrets and good humor. A Sunday in the countryside has been offering for more than a year to three celebrities to live together for a short stay alongside Frédéric Lopez, and this Sunday, December 3, 2023, they are the singer Catherine Lara, the actor Philippe Lellouche and the host Cyril Féraud who agreed to play the game. Frédéric Lopez’s three guests made beautiful confidences about their respective personal lives, and the 78-year-old singer notably revealed that she had come close to death at the age of 3after contracting a very serious childhood illness, which doctors were never able to diagnose.
“It was a bit of a weird illness. I had infantile paralysis. It was very, very painful. I still have memories of lumbar punctures, of lots of difficult things. Between 3 and 4 years old, I couldn’t walk no, they can’t catch me because it makes me suffer. I’m not far from death“ explained the singer and violinist. A brutal, paralyzing, violent, potentially fatal diseasewho arrived as a runaway, and who left just as quickly, without the family or the doctors around Catherine Lara being able to understand the illness that had eaten away at her.
Healed miraculously, one beautiful winter morning
“One night, my parents were woken up by the sound of bells. There were absolutely no bells around our house, but they both heard them. With a kind of sound that radiated around them. And the next morning I was healed, it was over“ explained the one to whom we owe famous hits of French song like Magical Night, The Diamond Rocker And Chalk in the inkwell. It must be said that at the time, the diagnostic measures used by doctors were much less advanced than today, but one thing is certain: lumbar punctures still remain as painful and traumatic today !