It’s a lunar interview that Thierry Ardisson gave to Guillaume Pley this Sunday, October 8, 2023, and which risks generating a lot of attention. The man in black from the PAF, who has been promoting the creation of his Ardivision channel for several days, on which he rebroadcasts all the successful shows that he produced and/or hosted, such as Salut les terriens, Lunettes noirs pour nuits blanche or even 93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, did not hesitate to speak out in complete frankness on his relationship with drugs, which he never denied. Cash, as usual, the companion of journalist Audrey Crespo-Mara listed all the drugs he had already tried… and there are many!
Asked about the possibility of having already consumed weed and poppers, Thierry Ardisson immediately agreed: “Of course!” Hallucinogenic mushrooms? Also: “When I was in Bali in 1974, we had a house by the beach, in the morning, we woke up, took the motorbike, and we went from where we were to the city, and we ate omelettes with hallucinogenic mushrooms. I don’t recommend taking them but it’s true that it opens your mind” assured the host and producer.
Thierry Ardisson also confirmed having already tasted ecstasy, “a yellow drug” which he finds “not bad”. On the other hand, he doesn’t have good memories of the period when he tried cocaine: “Yes, but it’s not really my thing, because it annoys me, and then you have to take all the time, then you drink, you do a line, you end up badly at the end.” And to qualify his entire statement by ensuring that he “stopped everything” with one exception: the firecrackers!
“I opened my veins”
If he admitted not having never tasted nitrous oxide and ketamineThierry Ardisson returned at greater length to the dark period he experienced in the mid-1970s. Manhandled by his first wife, Christiane Bergognon, Thierry Ardisson reveals having lost his footing and having “open the veins” : “I was in competition with another guy, who was much better than me. I was freaked out, I attempted suicide. Christiane was reluctant to come and live with me in Paris (…) and he There was the mountain in front of me and I wondered how I was going to get to the top. I broke down, I opened my veins. I barely escaped. I ended up in the hospital, then a psychologist. The guy tells me: You don’t do it Mr. Ardisson, we will make you normal. But I don’t want to become normal. And then I found another escape“.
His friends at the time all died of overdoses and AIDS
This escape was obviously drugs: “I was hooked on heroin for three years. I thought that was the solution, because you don’t want to eat anymore, you don’t want to fuck anymore, you don’t want to work anymore. It’s a kind of nirvana in powder form. Except after a while you realize you’re taking a drug, and you’re addicted to that drug.”. For several months, Thierry Ardisson fled to the United States, hoping to wean himself off, to avoid dying like his friends, “AIDS or overdoses”. He will get there: “I stuck with it, and it was probably the hardest thing I did in my life. Most of the guys I was with either died of AIDS or died of overdoses. And I went to California. There, I didn’t know where they were. I spent six months there. It was before TV, it was in 1975-1976. I spent more than three months there trying to rebuild myself.”.