Dave is a survivor. On January 28, the 78-year-old singer came out of a coma three days after a terrible fall at his home in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Close to death, he had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Last May, Wouter Otto Levenbach, his real name, returned to this accident which almost cost him his life in the program hosted by Laurent Ruquier and Léa Salamé, “We are live”. “I almost died and it is true that it is not the first time that I have had to deal with death because unfortunately I have lost many friends because of AIDS. I told myself that it didn’t scare me, and it’s true that I wasn’t scared because I don’t remember anything. […] I don’t remember anyone who came to see me”confided the singer now plagued by some memory problems.
In a recent interview for We Two, the interpreter of the tube of “On the side of Swan” poured out on other sequelae left to him by the trauma: the loss of taste and smell following the shock. “I feel like crying twice a day during meals. When everything was in bloom in June, I didn’t smell anything. It was very sad. Smell and taste may or may not come back, you don’t know when “, the Dutch artist was moved.
Invited to the set of “C to You on France 5”, the one who shares the life of the author Patrick Loiseau had already mentioned this misadventure. “It’s still something that changed me, I think (…) When you fall like that, and you wake up two weeks later and you don’t remember anything, it’s not funny“, he said with emotion.