This is a man with a path strewn with pitfalls who gave himself up with an open heart in the magazine Gala this week: at 68, Patrick Sébastien has agreed to talk all subjects, even the most difficult. With an outspokenness that belongs only to him, the former host of France 2 even ended up talking about his death, devastated by kidney cancer who was diagnosed with this year.
A “tsunami“in his life, he said, he who”I’m fine now“but which made him reflect on death and in particular on these different times when he himself thought of taking his own life. “I’ve considered it many timeshe says in all sincerity. I often played with death, and I still do every day, like with that cigarette I just lit.“
A suicide which he finally gave up each time: “I don’t have the courage. It takes some to pick up a gun and shoot.“It must be said that the life of the host has not always been rosy. A tragedy, in particular, marked him forever: at the age of 36, he lost his 19-year-old son, Sébastien, from an accident. motorcycle, while this one was going to be a dad.
A tragedy from which he will take a long time to recover, despite the presence of his three other children. From two different unions, he is also the father, in fact, of two other sons, Olivier, born in 1980, and Benjamin, in 1991. But it was in 2007 that a little princess finally came to make him smile: in company of his wife, Nana, with whom he has just formalized his breakup, he adopts a little girl, Lily, originally from Polynesia and now a teenager.