By Victoria Buisson – Published on 25 Nov 2024 at 17:30
Despite his notoriety, Eddy Mitchell has gone through many challenges. He also almost lost his wife due to a terrible addiction.
An emblematic figure of French song, Eddy Mitchell has been working on projects since the beginning of the 1960s. On the road to Memphis has Mint water color passing through No boogie woogie, The Last Session or
Always a corner that reminds methe artist no longer counts the successes he has performed. Although he is now 82 years old, the singer clearly has no intention of moving away from the spotlight. On November 8, he returned to the forefront with a brand new project called Friends.
Eddy Mitchell reveals his biggest vice
In addition to this fortieth album, Eddy Mitchell recently promoted his memoirs. In his work entitled
Autobiographypublished by Le Cherche Midi on November 7, 2024, Johnny Hallyday's friend spoke at length about his career in music while revealing more personal aspects of his private life. He notably returned to his addictions, one of which almost cost him his relationship with Muriel Bailleul. At the beginning of the 1980s, the one who also spoke about his funeral was completely “addicted“gambling.
“You leave your wife to come home at 7 a.m. the next day”
“I frequented all the gaming circles, private or public. They had become my second homes“, he writes according to information from our colleagues at Télé-Loisirs. A big fan of poker and casino games, Eddy Mitchell saw his passion spill over into his married life. A situation which almost caused a breakup! “When you leave your wife at 2 o'clock in the afternoon to come back at 7 o'clock in the morning the next day and tell her over and over again about your hours of poker, you say to yourself that in fact, perhaps it is time to get up foot“, he says.
A saving intervention for the artist
It was finally thanks to an ultimatum from his wife Muriel Bailleul that Eddy Mitchell had the strength to put an end to this vice. “Was it the game or her“, he explains. “It took me a little time to get rid of this addiction, then I did it radically“. In his book, the artist remembers with a touch of irony his last visit to a casino, that of Deauville, in 1983. Arriving in broad daylight, he says he perceived a word in the eyes of the employees that marked: “pigeon“. Aware of his addiction, the singer of Vieilles Canailles therefore made a radical decision. “I then wrote a letter to get banned from all gaming circles“, he confides, determined to turn the page on this invasive passion.
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