Ycare is doing better and he opens up about his former addiction to alcohol to support people who are victims of this vice. It was a terrible tragedy that gave him the trigger to stop everything.
Ycare made a successful return to the forefront with his songs with Axelle Red and having actively participated in the last edition of Les Enfoirés. It was in 2008 that he became known to the public by participating in the show The New Staralongside Benjamin Siksou, who is now an actor and Amandine Bourgeois, the big winner of this season 6. He was finally eliminated in the quarter-finals and finished in 4th place in the singing competition. In the months that followed, he tried to establish himself solo in the music world, but it was mainly in the shadows, in writing pieces for his fellow artists that he made his mark. a name. In recent years, Ycare has struggled with life, and he has fallen into an addiction to alcohol. It is ultimately a tragedy which will give him the trigger to stop his excesses.
Ycare upset by the tragedy of a loved one
While he was in a jazz bar, immersing himself in his addiction, he received a message: a close friend had just had a car accident, which caused the death of three children in Dakar. “He hit a small makeshift house, children sleepingas unfortunately often happens, for those who do not have a roof over their heads. He was coming home from a wedding, he had drunk too much and he fell asleep at the wheel. On a speed bump, he left the road and killed three kids, 6, 9, 12 years old, in front of their parents who were sleeping.”tells Ycare in the podcast Turn : “I have taken this road a thousand times when leaving the club (…) These speed bumps, I took them at 100 km/h and plenty of times, I could have deviated. It fell on him and his life was ruined.”
“You know what? ‘Move your ass’Ycare launched
“The realization is that he is the one who does not die, who kills three people, who was going to be a lawyer and who is going to go to prison, forever”confides Ycare. He then thinks of his mother and this friend’s loved ones who will feel as involved in this drama as he does, even though they are not responsible for anything. “I got out of there, came home and everything changed. From one dream to another, I didn’t say to myself: ‘you’re going to stop gradually, you’re going to see a psychiatrist, get medication’. You know what? ‘Move your ass’. In this process, he was also able to count on the support of Axelle Red who believed in his abilities and pushed him to break away from his addictions. A beneficial life change.
