On the occasion of his new show Life, love, etc. at the Bobino theater from January 13 to March 10, 2025, Michel Fugain was the guest ofWe're doing TV again on RTL this Saturday, November 9, 2024. The singer did not expect that journalist Éric Dussart would ask him a question about Laurette, his daughter who died of complications linked to her bone marrow transplant in May 2002, a year after learning that she was suffering from leukemia. To advance research and help victims of the disease, her mother Stéphanie Fugain then founded the Laurette Fugain association.
Michel Fugain overwhelmed by emotion on RTL
During the interview, the RTL host asked Michel Fugain if he continued to sing “for Laurette“. “For… Laurette? Oh, sweetie…“, said the artist, very touched. “She's part of a whole, I sing tears and smiles“, he added. While Éric Dussart continued to talk about the death of his daughter, the interpreter of Live life was very emotional and ended up asking to change the subject, not having the strength to address this drama: “Yes… (he breathes), because… She was 22 years old. All right ? And a desire is to live. And it's… We… We move on?“.
The singer saved by his partner Sanda, a gift “of destiny“
It's only “two months later“this unbearable loss that
Michel Fugain met Sanda, the woman who still shares his life today: “I was dead. I was dead! I was pale, green, my hair was falling apart, I had incredible alopecia areata. At the hospital, when Laurette was being treated, I was on the fifth (floor), she was on the fourth. I was being treated for alopecia areata. My body expelled stuff because it was such a terrible shock. (…) I was going to die, I felt it. I was ready to leave. We usually sink, and that's when the siren comes in. She grabbed me and brought me to the surface. (…) There, I thought it was a sign, something from destiny, in fact. That is to say, there is a soul that leaves, and I meet another soul, with whom I was friends at first. And then one day, we broke down. At 60 I met the woman I was made for and I believe I was the man she was made for“ on @RTLFrance pic.twitter.com/MG6bOoxZbB— Eric Dussart (@E_Dussart) https://twitter.com/E_Dussart/status/1855200907304009842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
