In February 2023, Pierre Palmade, under the influence of substances while driving his car, collided with another vehicle on a road in Seine-et-Marne. The passengers in the car opposite, a family, were injured, a child seriously, and a pregnant woman lost her baby. Wednesday November 20, 2024, his trial opens before the Melun criminal court for “unintentional injuries, aggravated by drug use“. Despite the prosecution’s requisitions, the charge of manslaughter was not retained. The comedian must now answer for his actions as a repeat offender and faces up to 14 years in prison. Present from the first day of the trial, Yuksel Yakut says that he “makes regular trips to the hospital for treatment. He has a hip prosthesis. His son had to repeat his CE1 class due to the psychological impact. As for his sister-in-law, [Mila, ndlr] she is in great psychological suffering and has not been able to return to work.”relays BFMTV. But what has happened to Pierre Palmade over the past year and a half?
“He doesn’t drink anymore, he doesn’t do drugs anymore” : what has Pierre Palmade’s life been like since February 2023?
The Parisian investigated the comedian’s life since he caused this serious road accident. “The Barrière de Bègles district (Gironde) has become accustomed to seeing the actor pass by, as a broad-shouldered ghost would pass, in front of its white stone facades, these shops on the ground floor where little light penetrates. For a year and a half, the fallen star found refuge a stone’s throw from her sister, Hélène, in this suburb of Bordeaux“, explains the daily. Then to specify that there is “bought a house without ostentation, after the sale of his property in Cély-en-Bière, near Melun (Seine-et-Marne)”. Still according to information from the daily, which interviewed one of his acquaintances of the man who was close to Muriel Robin for a long time, he is nothing more than a shadow of himself. “He’s afraid of how others look at him. He already has his prison… He doesn’t do anything anymore, he spends most of his time in front of the television, he goes out to do his shopping, and that’s it.” However, it seems that the actor has tried to redress the situation during this period of time. Another of his acquaintances declares: “He no longer drinks, he no longer does drugs; every week, he goes to the hospital to carry out screening tests which demonstrate his abstinence. Since he was 20, he had only known parties and clubs. Without drugs, he’s like a new person. He learns to live again.”.
How much money has Pierre Palmade been living on since the accident?
Pierre Palmade’s outings would therefore be limited to these few errands and medical appointments to which he would go by taxi. It must be said that he is banned from driving and no longer has many activities related to his profession as an actor, except that he still writes plays. Spotted in the 80s, he mainly cut his teeth in the theater before appearing in cinema and on television in Asterix and Obelix against Caesar by Claude Zidi, or in an episode of the series Astrid and Raphaëlle. Last year, he seemed to have given up on this career. In September 2023, he declared, again to our colleagues in Parisian : “I only like one thing in life, it’s my life as an artist, writing and performing comedies, and today, I’m not sure I’ll be able to start this job again. I wonder about the future and the terrifying apprehension of the trial that awaits me”. In the meantime, the artist is not living on his savings. He would touch, thanks to “his copyright, and the insurance he has received since son stroke [survenu l’an dernier, ndlr]bring him the equivalent of a comfortable salary, 7,000 euros per month. An income which, it seems, does not show through in this new dark way of life, far from his escapades of yesteryear.
