The singer spoke about the California fires backstage at the Sud de France Arena in Pérols.
He has been present in Montpellier for a week with the Enfoirés troupe, while his house went up in smoke in Los Angeles.
“It’s really because it’s the Restos du coeur, otherwise, obviously, I would be on a plane to Los Angeles,” confided Patrick Bruel to Midi Libre on Monday January 13, announcing his desire to go “notice the damage” as soon as the series of shows ends.
“I'll be there next week (this week, Editor's note), he confirmed on Sunday in the press room at the Sud de France Arena in Pérols. The area still needs to be accessible.”
“I was right to postpone my departure”
“I was right to postpone my departure there for a week to participate in Les Enfoirés,” he emphasizes. The cause, Restos du coeur, was more important than anything for the singer who also received numerous expressions of support from other artists during his stay in Montpellier.
-“Even if that doesn't lessen the pain, which is very, very strong. Even if obviously we always tell ourselves that we are not the ones most to be pitied, that doesn't take away the violence of the thing, he explains. It's eight years of life, preparation, installation there and then memories. Intimate things. Children's drawings, for example, we no longer have. But we say to ourselves that since there are no victims, everything is fine.”
Do not “add anxiety to anxiety”
“Luckily, he continues, my children, Oscar and Léon, were not there. The first was with me in France. The second was getting ready to take the plane. He offered to turn around to see what happened on the spot. I told him: You don't turn around anything. You’re not going to add more anguish to anguish.”
Patrick Bruel will leave Montpellier this Tuesday morning, like the other artists. The Enfoirés concerts, which brought together nearly 58,000 spectators at the Arena over seven performances, end this Monday, January 20, with a final recording of the evening by TF1.
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