(Paris) Eric Serra, famous composer of the soundtrack of the cult film The big Bluerevealed on Wednesday that he had “lightning” cancer, in an interview with the newspaper site The Parisian.
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“I had small bowel lymphoma. It’s lymph node cancer. He was quite dazzling, explains the 62-year-old musician. Within a few days, if I hadn’t noticed it, I might not be here to tell you about it.
What helped him during his treatment was having “talked a lot” about it with the French singer Florent Pagny, who was being treated for a cancerous tumor in the lung. “It’s behind me,” he posted on Instagram on May 10.
“We exchanged little messages, we called each other, says Serra. Casually, this complicity did me a lot of good, and I imagine that to him too. […] We were talking about chemo, how we felt. »
“We healed in parallel, he adds. Florent is particularly positive. Serra, who had had to cancel his film-concert tour of the soundtrack of the Big BlueLuc Besson’s flagship film, will be able to show it in the fall.
The composer also confides that he had to live in seclusion, because the professor of medicine treating his case had warned him: “This specific cancer is the only one which is 100% incompatible with COVID-19. If you ever catch it before the end of the treatment, you have very little chance of getting out of it. »
And to say: “A few days later, my daughter had COVID-19. I lived for five months […] completely locked up. I did not approach my children closer than 3 meters. »