Disability: Dominique Farrugia tells about his life with multiple sclerosis

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Dominica Farrugia, entertainer at the time of Draws, has suffered from multiple sclerosis for 30 years. He wrote his story, “The one who never left me”, with the editions Robert-Laffont.

For 30 years, Dominique Farrugia head-on a hyperactive career and fight against multiple sclerosis, the one that has never left him, he writes in his autobiography. What interested me was to talk about my daily life, starting from my childhood to go until today, to explain how I managed to work, to live and to slowly fall until I wounded a footballer while putting on my pajama bottoms, which is very stupid “, says the producer.

The humour has been the hallmark of Dominica Farrugia, when he made his Canal + debut with Les Nuls. Director and producer, he also created two cable channels and directed a Canal + time. “This disease kicked my ass to keep working. Work is the best medicine I have found“, he says. With his book, The one who never left me, Dominique Farrugia wants to raise awareness about the situation of the disabled. Him say again to have been lucky and now runs a large fiction production company.


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