On August 22, viewers of Paris Première will be able to discover Patrick Juvet: with an open heart!a documentary devoted to the life and career of the late singer who died in April 2021. The interpreter of the hits I Love America and Where are the women lived in secrecy in Barcelona, Spain, for the past few years. Facing loneliness and struggling with his addiction to alcohol, he had also begun to have a disgust for his physique.
It is Nancy, the adored sister of Patrick Juvet, who makes these moving confidences in the pages of the magazine Gala. “He had a hard time with aging, physical change… He couldn’t bear to see himself in mirrors anymore. It was a wound“, she confides with sincerity. During his life, the singer had voluntarily resorted to cosmetic surgery but the result had not been as successful as desired. In 2016, interviewed by Gala, Patrick Juvet sincerely evoked the American years during which he had recourse to the scalpel, at the level of the lips. “It missed ! We only see that! At the time we used silicone, I went to see several doctors since, but it is irremediable (…) I was recently advised to have my neck straightened (…) but would that make me happier? If tomorrow I am offered the role of Dracula in a film, it could be more fun with my head, right? So what…“, he said.
Installed in Spain – but his ashes are in Switzerland, his native country – Patrick Juvet lived in discretion and seemed to appreciate this way of life far from the glitter of show business, its excesses and its multiple temptations. “He was happy in Spain (…) he appreciated this anonymity which allowed him to live like everyone else, to be only Patrick. And liked to find his audience when he gave concerts“, specifies his sister, who adds that the singer came however from time to time to see her in Switzerland.
Galaedition of Thursday, August 18, 2022.