The year did not start as Florent Pagny would have liked. The 60-year-old singer, on an anniversary tour and filming The Voice at the time, was told he had inoperable lung cancer. More than two weeks after the shock announcement, Florent Pagny agreed to answer questions in TF1’s 8 p.m. news. Faced with Gilles Bouleau this Thursday, February 10, 2022, the interpreter of Know how to love spoke about his state of health and his fight against the disease, all in modesty.
“I am very well. What just needs to be clarified is, ok, I have a problem, which is the wrong box at the start but all the other boxes are pretty good. I discover it very early, I’m at degree 1, it’s something I’ve had for 3 and 6 months. It’s very young! I only have a tumor, no metastases, nothing in the other organs“, did he declare.
After having been “knocked out” by the news, Florent Pagny faced the problem with full of optimism: “We can’t operate because it divides quickly, there’s a lot of risk of it spreading to other organs so we don’t operate, but there are really good treatments: chemo but also the immunotherapy which accompanies it and which is more and more efficient. The rays will also help solve this problem.
When it’s taken from the start and it’s very isolated, I only see the good side of things. I started chemo and it’s going pretty well, I’m coping pretty well. ” He can also count on the many messages of support he has received and which, according to him, make that “it all turns out fine in the end“.
While everything seemed to be going well for the singer – he had started an anniversary tour for his 60th birthday and recorded the first episodes of the next season of The Voice -, Florent Pagny revealed what no one expected on his Instagram account: “I have just been diagnosed with a tumor in the lung, a not very sympathetic cancerous tumor which cannot be operated on, so I have to go into a six-month protocol of chemotherapy and X-rays. You all know that in life, the most important is health and when you have a problem, it becomes a priority. This is the reason why I could not honor my commitments.“
Aware of starting a crucial phase in his fight against the disease, Florent Pagny announced that he wanted to refocus on the essentials and put all the chances on his side to emerge stronger from this ordeal: “Me and my better half have to put ourselves in warrior mode in order to face this rather special ordeal. I am sorry. Take care, be well, and when this is all over, we’ll meet again. I will come to finish what I started. It may be the tour of 61!“A few days ago, the artist announced, still on Instagram, to have”started chemo“, specifying in passing that “life goes on“. Proof that Florent Pagny is not about to give up.