A true living legend of French song. Eddy Mitchell will be the guest of journalist Audrey Crespo-Mara on Sunday November 24, 2024. As part of the show Sept à quatre, broadcast on TF1. During an extract published the day before on social networks, Thierry Ardisson's wife first wanted to know how her guest was doing.
In fact, Audrey Crespo-Mara was worried because she was originally scheduled to interview Eddy Mitchell three weeks earlier. But the singer was forced to postpone this interview. “It’s going slowly, it’s going well. (…) I had pneumonia”the musician first admitted. Eddy Mitchell also revealed that he stopped smoking and drinking on the advice of his doctors.
Eddy Mitchell revealed he used to drink 'two bottles of whiskey a day' in the past
“They say you shouldn't smoke. That you shouldn't drink, that you shouldn't eat fatty foods. Finally, you shouldn't do anything…“, also underlined the musician. Later during this extract, the friend of the deceased Johnny Hallyday explained that he had taken up the habit of drinking “two bottles of whiskey a day“at a certain time.
Excesses to which Johnny Hallyday also indulged during his existence. Indeed, the singer smoked a lot and sometimes had a tendency to drink a little too much. It was partly because of this that he developed lung cancer which was fatal to him. For the record, Eddy Mitchell's friend died on December 5, 2017 at the age of 74.
Johnny Hallyday sometimes “forgot that he was in chemo” during the Vieilles Canailles tour
Shortly before his death.
Johnny Hallyday had gone on tour with his friends from Vieilles Canailles, Jacques Dutronc and Eddy Mitchell. Audrey Crespo-Mara also took advantage of the latter's presence in front of her to ask him to comment on an archive photo. Dating precisely from the Vieilles Canailles tour. On it, the singer appears alongside his late friend Johnny Hallyday.
“It was in Clermont-Ferrand. He was in great shape. Besides, the doctors who were following him came to see me to thank me even though I had nothing to do with it. They said to me: 'You You had a wonderful time.' He forgot he was in chemo It's true, it was a beautiful evening.”said Eddy Mitchell in particular.
