A sequence that marked television forever. It was April 5, 1986, Michel Drucker received in his program “Champs-Élysées” a young American singer still unknown to the general public, a certain Whitney Houston, then in full ascending glory. Serge Gainsbourg, also present on the set and somewhat alcoholic, dropped the young artist a memorable “I want to f*ck her!” which had obviously scandalized the main interested party. Michel Drucker was not left out and had a hard time extricating himself from this uncontrolled skid.
Invited to the program “En Aparté” on Canal+, Michel Drucker returned to this sequence which continues to go around the world today: “It was a worldwide scandal! Moreover, this sequence that you see, which has been the buzz of the last fifty years on television, is shown all over the world. It happened to me to walk in Cambodia, to walk in Israel, to walk in England and people talk to me about that. It happens all the time. It was so huge, huge what he pulled out of her...”, he said.
The host, who considers himself miraculous after his health concerns from which he has now recovered well, admitted that this sequence continued to haunt him. “Today, I would have told him to apologize. But it was live. I was so flabbergasted. I tried to translate as best I could, everyone remembers it. And above all, he says at one point in the extract: ‘My microphone does not work’. How I wish it didn’t work! It remains a nightmare for me, this sequence“, he confided to the journalist Nathalie Levy.
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