Pierre Palmade will appear this Wednesday, November 20 before the Melun criminal court. Drug consumption has got the better of the “comedian, hard worker on an empty stomach, interested in mature women” in favor of the “unbridled reveler, living his homosexuality in a displayed and omnipotent way”, analyzes the expert who worked in connection with the accident caused by the fallen comedian.
Comedian Pierre Palmade, who appeared Wednesday, November 20 at the criminal court of Melun, in Seine-et-Marne, for involuntary injuries, became a pariah after the serious car accident caused under the influence of drugs.
On February 10, 2023, getting behind the wheel after three days of using drugs without sleeping, the actor, then aged 54, crashed into a car driving in the opposite lane and caused three serious injuries within the same family.
This highly publicized accident, which leads to a cascade of revelations about his addictions (alcohol, drugs, chemsex), reveals the dark side of a popular comedian, although a little out of fashion, who for thirty years has been staging his fights against his existential terrors.
Riddled with debt
The general public discovered with amazement an artist who had been unable to work for several years as he was mired in his drug addiction, repeatedly dropping out of detoxification treatments and riddled with debts to the tune of 250,000 euros.
A cocaine user since he was 20, Pierre Palmade had fallen into 3-MMC injections two years earlier, an even harder and more addictive synthetic drug that boosts sexual desire.
After the accident, those close to him initially remained silent. Her friend the actress Michèle Laroque, who was her scene partner, will talk six months after her “tremendous sorrow” : “Everything I had to say to him, I told him, and I will continue. But it remains between him and me.” Muriel Robin has definitively cut ties: “I’m not her friend anymore.”
With his bulging gaze and his lanky silhouette, Pierre Palmade had won over a large audience, enjoying a string of successes with shows like “They Loved” (1996), “They Loved” (2001), “I’ve Never Been as old” (2010), his boulevard plays and television audience records (“Le grand restaurant”).
It’s my intellectual exhibitionism that pushes me to go on stage. My fears of dying and my complicated relationships with others
Burlesque, his humor first targets the ordinary man with his little lies and his pettiness then will, over the years, focus on himself, an anxious party animal. “It’s my intellectual exhibitionism that pushes me to go on stage. My fears of dying and my complicated relationships with others: my mother, my loves, my sexuality”he confided to Paris Match in 2001.
That same year, when he had been married for six years to Véronique Sanson, he revealed his bisexuality. “I cannot reduce myself to homosexuality just because I am regularly attracted to boys.”
Absurdity of everyday life
After his divorce in 2004, his sexual orientation increasingly informed his shows. He will cause controversy by admitting his “sadness of being gay”. Born on March 23, 1968 in Bordeaux, to an English teacher and an obstetrician, Pierre Palmade claims to have lost “all male markers at 8 years old”.
His father, called for a birth, died one night when his car was thrown against a tree. His mother refuses to allow him to attend the funeral, leaving him unable to grieve. It is among women that he forms his sense of humor, versed in self-deprecation. He imitates Jacqueline Maillan, fascinated by her games of rupture and her excess. At 19, he stopped his HEC prep and left for Paris.
First meetings: the comedian Guy Bedos, who performs his first sketches, then Sylvie Joly who stages her first one-man show, “My mother really likes what I do”. The show was a great success.
“Accept it, damn it!”
Critics recognize her writing talent which captures in a few words the absurdity of everyday life and the disturbing intonations common to Muriel Robin, “her double”. In 2020, with his show “Assume, bordel!”, he addressed all the themes of gay couples. “With this piece, I hope to make amends for people who misunderstood me.”
In a psychiatric assessment carried out as part of the investigation into the road accident, the expert considers that drug consumption was responsible for the “comedian, hard worker on an empty stomach, interested in mature women” for the benefit of “unbridled reveler, living his homosexuality in a displayed and all-powerful way”. “Progressively, it was this second face that took over, in an ever-deepening search for hedonism, at the risk of the rest of his life”analyzes the expert. A life now shattered.
