With the immense sorrow, the incomprehension. Thursday evening, the news of the death of Michel Blanc spread among his loved ones – and in particular his friends from the Splendid troupe, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Gérard Jugnot, Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte and Bruno Moynot. And everyone was stunned: because at 72 years old, the actor was not sick. “He was in great shape,” even underlines a collaborator.
It was Gérard Jugnot who, this Friday morning on RTL, put forward the first explanations for this brutal death. “I think I was told that he had a huge allergy, an anaphylactic shock from a medication. They tried to resuscitate him, it was terrible for the rest of the day yesterday, but he left,” he said.
A violent reaction to a foreign substance followed by heart attack
It was in fact during a medical examination that Michel Blanc suffered a violent reaction after taking a medication. The actor then suffered a heart attack and died in the evening in a Parisian hospital. Although several media outlets have mentioned the likelihood of an investigation into the causes of death, the Paris public prosecutor’s office has told us that it has not yet been contacted.
Born with a heart murmur, the director and performer of “Bronzés”, “Marche à l’ombre”, “Grosse fatigue” and “Monsieur Hire” was a hypochondriac and assiduously visited doctors. “Death scared him so much,” Dominique Lavanant, who notably played Christiane in “les Bronzés,” told Télégramme. Before specifying that the actor had died “in the arms of his partner (Ramatoulaye Diop, with whom Michel Blanc had lived for around fifteen years) with whom he was emotionally happy.
