At the start of the year, Frédéric Beigbeder returns with a new novel. On the occasion of his release, he spoke with La Tribune Sunday and revealed that he had a heart attack a few weeks ago.
After a few months of silence, almost imposed by a rape investigation against him, now closed, Frédéric Beigbeder returns. The writer releases a new book, A man alonea mix between a novel and a biography of his own father, Jean-Michel Beigbeder, who died in 2023. During a conversation with a journalist from The Sunday Tribuneon January 12, he confided that he had suffered a heart attack. While at the restaurant with the interviewer he decides to order red meat, he reveals: “Pfff, I’m ashamed… I had a heart attack three weeks ago, intensive care, stent and all that; the cardiologists told me to stop eating red meat, you see I don’t last long. “ For the 59-year-old writer, this heart attack is full of meaning.
Frédéric Beigbeder was afraid of dying before the release of his new book
“[Michel] Houellebecq gave me this advice: ‘Write each book as if you were going to die on the day of publication.’ There, it almost was true! A week after sending the last corrections on the last proofs, I was in intensive care”he reveals. His heart attack also occurred on the day of the “anniversary of police custody” in the rape case for which he was prosecuted last year. A whole series of elements that Frédéric Beigbeder does not take lightly.
-Since his heart attack, Frédéric Beigbeder has had a cocktail of medications to take every day
When his meal arrives, he continues to recount his health mishaps. “If I can eat this without dying right away, it’s thanks to the drugs I take, statins, which lower cholesterol. I also have a beta blocker to slow the blood pressure, and aspirin to thin the blood. blood, he states. Not to mention the insulin that the diabetic in me injects all day long. See, I’m not weaned, I just replaced banned substances with legal ones!” A comment which refers to his public cessation of cocaine, which he says he has consumed for a long time, in 2022. Frédéric Beigbeder also claims to have almost stopped drinking alcohol.
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