The singer of Catalan origin, guest on A Sunday in the Country with Dany Boon and Virginie Grimaldi, on France 2, speaks out after shooting himself in the chest last April. “Love rebuilt me at an incredible speed, it makes me weird, it’s the first time I’m talking about it.”
By accepting Frédéric Lopez's invitation for Sunday in the Country, a program broadcast this Sunday, November 24, the singer of Catalan origin Kendji Girac knew he was on more friendly than mine ground. He agreed to speak out after his personal drama this spring: last April, under the influence of drugs and alcohol and after an argument with his wife, he shot himself in the chest.
This fall, on the occasion of the release of his new album, Vivre, the singer had to orchestrate a delicate comeback. And he knew he could count on the sympathetic ear of the host of France 2. The two men had both gone to Kenya in the spring for an issue of Rendez-vous en terre stranger. They had returned two weeks before the painful episode of the firearm.
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The good media stunt of a comeback
The good media stunt of a comeback mixing secrets and confidence was recorded and filmed during the summer. And it also had a special flavor for Frédéric Lopez: it was the fiftieth broadcast of A Sunday in the Country, says Kendji Girac in the show's barn. He talks about his wife “wonderful“.
“Now I am happy like never before, I have a flame lit in my heart even bigger than before.“He recognizes that his victory on The Voice, ten years ago, at 16, had gone to his head, that his father had to reframe him.
On the demons and the pains that visited him that April evening, on the other hand, not a word. Frédéric Lopez does not restart it. “I don't have this curiosity, even in my private lifeentrusts the host to Free Midday. What interests me is how people are doing. I just wanted to know if he was okay. I tell myself that the rest must be discussed with his psychologist. I would be embarrassed to ask these kinds of questions publicly in front of cameras, even in private. I don’t have that curiosity.”
Frédéric Lopez and Kendji Girac in Kenya
As the casting this weekend was, summarizes Frédéric Lopez afterwards, “light and deep, the quintessence of the program“, Dany Boon was not far away to defuse, clear the land anyway friend. “There will be no selection for the Olympic Games in shooting for 2028“, says the actor and director. “It's ruined, I don't know how to shoot anyway“, continued Kendji. A few weeks earlier, therefore, the host of France 2 had embarked for Kenya with the singer.
Raphaël de Casabianca, who succeeded Frédéric Lopez (who remained producer of the show) in 2018 for Rendez-vous en terre stranger, decided to give up his apron in 2024. The exercise is very emotionally draining, he justified. it in substance. The last show he presents will be broadcast on November 26 on France 2 at 9:05 p.m., with Tomer Sisley as a guest.
Lopez one “last time” in Rendezvous in Unknown Land
Lopez entrusted the reins to ex-Miss France Laury Thilleman (and those of Our Unknown Lands, in France, to Samuel Ostiguy). But for the show's twenty years, Frédéric Lopez's team suggested an idea to their boss: why not celebrate the anniversary by going back on the road and the African tracks? “I had to ask them for 24 hours to think about it, at the same time, it was very tempting“, he whispered to Midi Libre. He accepted, with this assurance: “I'm sure it was the last time“. The show with Kendji will be broadcast in early 2025. “I was very touched that he trusted me. There, they loved Kendji, that's no lie. They didn't know him. He's a very healthy guy. You can't pretend at 45 ° temperature.“
Frédéric Lopez, at the end of Sunday in the Country, mentions how much the singer was “an extraordinary travel companion“during their stay in Kenya.”It's the greatest compliment you can pay to a gypsy to be an extraordinary traveling companion.“, souffle Dany Boon.
