Michel Drucker is back! After a heavy second open heart operation, following a “infective endocarditis of the mitral valve”, only three years after the first operation for the same cause, the host claims to be much better, as he confided at length to our colleagues from the Parisianthis Sunday, July 2, 2023. A comeback in full light for those who admit to having gone through a very difficult period, “I was a shadow, a ghost, I couldn’t walk two meters”. Without appetite, he lost up to 10 kg. The doctors, who were treating this media patient under the pseudonym of Fiacre Diocard, to preserve his identity, had to put him on a pacemaker. And the host remains convinced: he 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 hadn’t gone far… At one point, I had a drop in blood pressure and my pulse fell to 30 beats”, he explains. For weeks, on his hospital bed, and to pass the time, the 80-year-old presenter obviously watched television: he did not miss any number of What an era! Saturday evening with Léa Salamé and Christophe Dechavanne but also reruns of his own shows Can’t wait for Sunday. He hardly used his phone, “It was too tiring for me“, but was able to count on the unwavering support of those close to him: Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron, “I had them on the phone both” he says, Laurent Ruquier, Julian Bugier or Nikos Aliagas.“Without them, I don’t know if I would have held on. They were great. I was also able to count on the unfailing support of France Télévisions“, he adds.
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
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Michel Drucker celebrates his 10,000th follower on Instagram! pic.twitter.com/5Z6OuDzoCr
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“I didn’t even know what TikTok was”
And of course, on the unfailing support of his wife, Dany Saval, who has been by his side for so many years. During the interview, Michel Drucker could not help but tell how he had learned of the rumors current about him on the networks, while he was convalescing.“I didn’t even know what TikTok was. I was later told that they called my wife and said: ‘Danny we are with you wholeheartedly.’ She asked why. ‘It was announced that Michel is dead.’ That’s social media. I don’t understand. To make the buzz? Fortunately, I was out of the inn”says the host, surely relieved to know that he is cured and to be able to resume the France 3 film sets at the end of August.
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