“I have very clear images of this moment when I feel my parents completely helpless”: Emmanuel Moire looks back on the death of his brother

Lively emotion this November 10 on France 2 in the show “A Sunday in the Countryside” hosted by Frédéric Lopez. Emmanuel Moire, as comfortable singing as acting (we can see him notably in Tomorrow belongs to usthe TF1 series filmed in Sète), returned to a particularly painful moment in his life: the death of his twin brother, Nicolas Moire, in 2009.

While the artist, now 45 years old, was working on a new album, he learned that his brother was the victim of a serious traffic accident.

Either we keep him alive at the risk of recovering someone who is no longer the one we knew or we let him go

“He got knocked down. He was put in a coma for fifteen days and little by little, when we brought him out of the coma, we saw that at the level of the brain, clinically, there was no longer anyone […] It was a real choice to make. That is to say, either we keep him alive at the risk of recovering someone who is no longer the one we knew, or we let him go. Difficult choice to make”confided the man who played Louis XIV in the musical The Sun King between 2004 and 2007.

Organ donation

And Emmanuel Moire continues: “I remember, I was with my parents, one on each side. I have very clear images of that moment when I felt my parents completely helpless. I am also in disarray. And a violence, a pain. We decided to let him go.”

The forty-year-old, very moved, also remembers that his brother undoubtedly contributed to saving lives thanks to some of his organs which were removed with the family's consent.