For his new book which comes out on Wednesday January 15, Marc Lavoine chose to explore a very intimate and difficult subject for him. In When the horses arrive, he thus looks back on the death of his mother in 2013 and imagines the last weeks of her life. “My mother is everything in the novel. Everything she inspired in me, I wrote down, everything she didn't tell me too. It's quite faithful in terms of character“, confided Marc Lavoine on Sunday in Audrey Crespo-Mara's “Portrait of the Week” in Seven to Eight (TF1).
The pain of Marc Lavoine after the death of his mother
The singer and former coach of The Voice returned to TF1 on his mother's last moments and the strong feeling of guilt that he still feels today. “She died badly, my mother. I remember being at home and I heard myself saying, 'If you don't get her out of there, she's going to die.' Her neighbors and her friend had put her in a clinic next to at her house, where I didn't take her out because I didn't want to piss off (…) She was operated on 3 times (…) they put her to sleep 3 times and she was very fragile on the anesthesia so there you go… I blamed myself for a long time… I felt a lot of guilt for not having moved.” said Marc Lavoine, very moved, assuring that his mother, who died in 2013 at the age of 73, could have “live a few more years”if he had made her leave the clinic she was in.
Marc Lavoine's crazy love for his mother
“She had a look of incredible purity. In his eyes, I felt good. I was crazy about my mother”continued Marc Lavoine, evoking his “unconditional love” for the one who gave him life. With modesty and a lot of emotion, the singer and actor then recounted his difficult mourning. “Losing the center of the world… I no longer know where I am parked, where I live, where I am, who I am… I fall to the ground, I can't even speak. I no longer know where I am and it lasted until I released the book I didn't accept, I didn't let her go (…) It's impossible to survive the death of your mother. you die. My childhood is dead. every day”, he detailed, recounting having tried, for years, to see what it felt like to die with alcohol, drugs or cigarettes. “I never loved the same or as much again”concluded the one who recently fell in love with Adriana Karembeu.
