At the height of his 80 years, Michel Drucker has known many moments of joy, but also of pain. With our colleagues from the magazine Gala, released on newsstands on September 8, 2022, the host talks about his superb relationship with his wife Dany Saval, but also the other members of his family who have brought him love and peace. This is how he modestly evokes the death of her sister, when she was still a baby.
Over the course of his career, the host has cried many of his friends on the small screen like Claude François or Johnny Hallyday. But he was also confronted with the disappearance of close beings bearing the same name as him. Thus, to the question of knowing who he would bring back from beyond for a birthday dinner apart from the artists he frequented, Michel Drucker answers bluntly. “My parents, Abraham and Lola, of course, my brother Jean, of course (long hesitation). And then my sister Monique, whom I did not know, and who was the eldest“, he then launches.
It is at this point that our colleagues note that he does not “never speak” of this sister who left very young. And Michel Drucker to confirm then to express himself a little more: “No. She was born in 1939, and she rests in the cemetery of Eygalières. I had her burial transferred to Provence, so that she would be near her mother. She would have been 83 today.“Finally, he discusses the reasons for this sudden death which undoubtedly left his parents with immense grief.”She died at the age of 8 months : my parents had gone to dinner with friends, and the person who was taking care of her put her down in her bed. When they got back, they found her dead, suffocated. A drama. We talked very little about it between us“, he recalls
For his part, Michel Drucker had no children. But he has been making perfect love with Dany Saval for over 50 years now! “MI am very proud, believe me, it’s my life as a couple. I am the man of duration. I always wanted a family that lasts, a couple that lasts“, he confides. And it seems that he has indeed succeeded.