Eddy Mitchell opens up about this addiction that put his relationship in danger

At 82 years old, Eddy Mitchell has just published his memoirs. Soberly titled Autobiography (Editions Le Cherche Midi) this work retraces the eventful life of the singer, between anecdotes from stage, filming, and even life. Johnny Hallyday’s sidekick took advantage of this autobiographical novel to open up about one of his dangerous addictions, which could well have ruined part of his life. At the beginning of the 1980s, the interpreter of The Last Session tried to get rid of it. “I had indeed become addicted,” he says in Autobiography, which our colleagues from Télé-Loisirs were able to read. At the time – he has now recovered – Eddy Mitchell was in fact addicted to gambling…

“I frequented all the gaming circles, private or public. They had become my second homes,” writes the singer in his book. A fan of poker and casino games of all kinds, Eddy Mitchell ended up letting his passion encroach on his relationship. Something that almost got him separated! “When you leave your wife at 2 o’clock in the afternoon to come back at 7 o’clock in the morning the next day and tell her over and over again about your hours of poker, you say to yourself that in fact, perhaps it is time to get up the foot”, he says in complete transparency. And it is in fact thanks to his wife Muriel Bailleul, tired of her husband giving more importance to his games than to her, that he ended up getting rid of this terrible vice. “It was the game or her,” he confides (…)

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