The singer is everywhere! On Wednesday November 6, 2024, Eddy Mitchell's autobiography was released in bookstores by Editions du Cherche-Midi. Friday November 29, after a few weeks of delay, the singer's new album, Amigos, is finally available. A month earlier, on Instagram, the team had indicated that “slight health reasons“
forced him to temporarily interrupt the promotion of his new album.
Thursday November 28, 2024, in an interview with Le Parisien, Eddy Mitchell assured that he was doing better. “As you can see, I stopped drinking alcohol and I'm not any worse off. I drink wine, but now I'm in the water. I stopped smoking a year ago. month”he said before revealing: “I had severe pneumonia, I still spent three days in the hospital. I've been smoking since I was 14, a pack a day.”.
Eddy Mitchell: “Alcohol is over”
The same day, for Gala, the 82-year-old singer declared: “I had pneumonia and, frankly, I didn’t know it was this bad.
We cough, we are nauseous… It's lovely, really“. Sunday November 24, 2024, on the set of Seven to Eight, on TF1, he confided in his excesses. “Alcohol is over. It was more of a mania than anything else. There was no pleasure”he had estimated.
During this interview, Eddy Mitchell also indicated that his voice was not “not very fit”.
“I have to stop smoking and, in this case, my voice will fail. Like me, it is addicted to tobacco and even becomes very thin when it runs out of it”he said before adding about his excesses: “I was very excessive in the company of, among others, Johnny. We drank a lot of alcohol, took a lot of cocaine”.
Eddy Mitchell: “I have to be careful”
Two years earlier, in a long interview with Le Monde, the singer spoke about his state of health. “Here,
I was at Necker hospital for examstomorrow I will be at the American hospital. I have to be careful.”he confided before specifying that he had to follow a
“drastic diet”.
“No more than ten cigarettes a day. It’s annoying but I have no choice”he lamented. Referring to cocaine, he added: “From ancient history. I only took it to do things I didn't want to do, like this two hundred date tour (in 1976, editor's note) which was to be used to pay divorce arrears. I've never had an addiction.”.
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