“It’s going slowly”: victim of pneumonia, Eddy Mitchell gives his news

He's better. And he’s the one who says it. Eddy Mitchell will be the guest of Audrey Crespo-Mara's portrait of the week in “Sept à Huit” this Sunday, November 24 on TF1 and streaming on TF1+ (new window). An appearance which will delight his fans, to whom he gave a little scare by postponing the release of his album for “slight health reasons”as its communications team explained on Instagram. Scheduled for November 8, his fortieth opus, entitled Friendsis therefore expected on November 29.

“It’s going slowly. I had pneumonia,” Eddy Mitchell told Audrey Crespo-Mara. A heavy smoker since the age of 14, he explains that he stopped smoking a month ago on the advice of his doctors. “We'll see! They say that you shouldn't smoke, don't drink and that you shouldn't eat fatty foods. Well, you shouldn't give a damn anymore. We follow more or less!”he said with the legendary frankness that characterizes him.

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Claude Moine, his real name, also released his first autobiography at the beginning of November, soberly titled Autobiography (Le Cherche-Midi). “For the first time, Eddy Mitchell opens up. He tells himself and tells us about his life here, from Belleville in the 1950s to today. Childhood, Golf-Drouot, Johnny Hallyday and Jacques Dutronc, Les Chaussettes Noires, rock, the stage and the studio, its successes and its crossing of the desert, the cinema sets: everything goes there”explains its editor.