Work and help despite the pain… Karine Ferri has been doing it for nearly 15 years and the disappearance of the man who meant so much to her, and millions of French people, Grégory Lemarchal. Indeed, whoever won the fourth season of the star Academy died on April 30, 2007 at just 24 years old, after a lifelong struggle with cystic fibrosis. Since then, the Grégory Lemarchal association, created a few months after the artist’s death, “funds important life-saving research programs, helps patients and their families improve their lives, educates the general public about the harsh reality of cystic fibrosis, and relentlessly raises awareness about the need for donating organs”as she recalls on her official website.
This Wednesday, October 5, Faustine Bollaert precisely addressed the subject of this disease which still wreaks far too much havoc, in a new issue of It starts today. For the occasion, she invited the parents of Grégory Lemarchal, as well as people affected by the disease. To introduce the subject, the host broadcast a magneto, retracing parts of the life of the singer, who did not fail to move the set, and in particular his parents.
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“It’s always special moments. These are things you don’t often watch. I understand that we have to bring them up to the public and everything. Now that we take care of the association, it’s always images that help us a lot to explain why we are here”said the father of the ex-candidate of the star Academy before however admitting: “it gets a little stuck… it stings”.
For her part, Karine Ferri continues to work for the association. And her companion Yoann Gourcuff seems as involved as she is, as evidenced by the host’s post on her Instagram account this Wednesday, October 5. A post in which she offered to win the signed crampons of the former player of the French team through a solidarity raffle which donates, of course, part of the money collected to the association Grégory Lemarchal .