At the age of 82, Eddy Mitchell releases his autobiography simply entitled Autobiography. The opportunity for the singer to freely discuss his rich life journey, but also his demons. In particular, he revealed his addiction to gaming. From the beginning of the 1980s, Johnny Hallyday’s sidekick realized that he had “in fact become addicted”: “I frequented all gaming circles, private or public. They had become my second homes,” he writes in his work. It was his wife, Muriel Bailleul, who pushed him to get rid of this addiction: “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 it is indeed time to take it easy. “It was the game or her,” he says in his book.
It wasn’t easy for the singer, but he managed it thanks to his determination: “I took a little time to get rid of this addiction, then I did it in a radical way.” His final gesture, intended to definitively turn this page in his life, was salutary: “I then wrote a letter to have myself banned from all gaming circles”.
But this is not his only confidence about his addictions. In his book, Eddy Mitchell also talks about stopping alcohol. “Alcohol is over. It was a mania, there was no pleasure. ‘Hey, what are you doing, what do you want to drink?’ Instead of drinking a glass of water (…)
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