“I said to myself: this time, it’s done!”entrusts this Sunday, July 2, 2023 the famous animator to our colleagues from the newspaper The Parisian. And to add with the humor that characterizes him: “At my age, years count double!”. At 80, however, the legend of the small screen seems unstoppable! After a long hospitalization and a second open-heart operation in just three years, Michel Drucker claims to be doing much better, after a heavy convalescence which had excluded him from the presentation of his flagship program, Can’t wait for Sunday on France 3. “I have come a long way. What happened to me is so incredible”he realized before specifying: “It’s going well and I almost still have a hard time realizing it. Considering the gravity of what I had, I should never have seen a journalist in front of me again. It’s miraculous.” Today, the most famous presenter in France admits it: he was very afraid of the diagnosis of his disease, a “infective endocarditis of the mitral valve”.
“Some nights I was so knocked out I thought I’d never surface again”
And explain the circumstances:“It had been two and a half years since I had heart surgery and everything was fine. Just before filming Vivement dimanche with singer Adamo, I had a fever of 38 two nights in a row. I couldn’t crash. the team. I stuffed myself with Doliprane to mask the fever and I did the broadcast on the radar. Miraculously, it didn’t show,” he explains in detail to our colleagues.“I did some tests and I knew very quickly that I had infective endocarditis of the mitral valve again. The same as the last time”, he remembers. From there, the animator went through a very complicated period, having lost a lot of weight:“I’m much better today but I had some tough times. Some nights I was so knocked out I thought I’d never surface again. I was a shadow, a ghost”he said and, speaking of his physical weakness:“I couldn’t walk two meters. It took me two months before I could take a shower again. I no longer ate, I lost 10 kilos”continues Michel Drucker, who was close to death. “I think my vital prognosis has been engaged. I was not told but I guessed it. My brother Jacques, who is a doctor, told me later that I had not gone far… At one point, I had a drop in blood pressure and my pulse fell to 30 beats”, he added. Fortunately, Michel Drucker will be back on television from August 27 for new filming of his cult show, with the approval of his doctors. Because for him, there is no question of retirement! “When you’re lucky enough to have a passion for a job, you can’t stop. All my friends who did it were old people, a year later”. After all, he concludes, “80 years today is not old!”
EXCLUSIVE | “At the hospital, they call me Terminator” Michel Drucker survived a second open-heart operation, less than three years after the first. He received us at his Parisian home ⤵https://t.co/XtXvockspl
– The Parisian (@le_Parisian) July 2, 2023
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