“I have just been diagnosed with a tumor in the lung, a not very sympathetic cancerous tumor which cannot be operated on.“, announced the singer Florent Pagny in a video published on January 25. Since then, the stars of show business have shown him the support and the production of The Voice reacted to his participation in the next season of TV hook. His friend Marc Lavoine has just taken the floor.
The singer, also recruited by TF1 for The Voice, was a guest on the show Media culture on Europe 1 this Thursday, January 27 and he did not escape a question about the state of health of his colleague. “I got him on the phone, he thanks the people who support him because he is very sensitive to people on the street, to taxi drivers who send him words. He will be on stage soon. I think that’s all that can be said. The rest, he has already told him and I think it belongs to him“, said Marc Lavoine, moved by this dirty blow of fate reserved for Florent Pagny.
The singer with the hoarse voice then confided to being present for his colleague, in his fight against cancer. “He’s been my friend for forty years, we call each other every day. Sometimes he answers me two days later but that’s normal. Florent, even in spirit, he is in Patagonia [il navigue entre l’Argentine et la France, après avoir un temps aussi vécu au Portugal, NDLR], he’s a traveler, he’s a good guy. I’m happy with the feedback he gets because people are right, Florent is a real, elegant guy and he’s my friend“, he added.
Florent Pagny, who faces this ordeal with the help of his wife Azucena, would have learned the diagnosis on the set of The Voice when recording the first premium. “When he recorded the last broadcasts of The Voice, this Friday, he received the results of the specialist. The phone rings, he picks up and there the verdict falls: the cancer is inoperable“, related Myriam Palomba in Do not touch My TV. According to her, the interpreter of the tubes Know how to love, My freedom of thought, To sing or If you want to try me should undergo”twenty chemotherapy sessions.“