Guest of Frédéric Lopez in A Sunday in the countryside this January 5 on France 2, Michel Fugain spoke about the death of his daughter Laurette, who died of leukemia in 2002, and how his wife Sanda helped him get back on his feet.
It is a moving testimony that Michel Fugain offered to viewers ofA Sunday in the countryside this January 5, 2025 on France 2. Invited by Frédéric Lopez to spend 48 hours in the bucolic setting of the show, the singer with a 60-year career retraced the thread of his childhood and spoke of the successes of his career in the face of Olympic medalist fencer Manon Apithy-Brunet and social media star physiotherapist Major Mouvement. At the end of this new issue, during the brunch sequence, the artist spoke on a more personal level about his life, and in particular the death of his daughter Laurette, who died of leukemia in 2002.
“She saved my life“: Michel Fugain confides with emotion about his wife Sanda in A Sunday in the countryside
Emotion obviously carried over the entire table. “My daughter gets sick. So. And there I die. For real. I considered it a personal attack on life. And I didn’t want to go back up. I put my daughter under an olive tree. The ashes. And two months later, I meet Sanda who comes into my life and changes it. This meeting turns everything upside down. I called her ‘my mermaid’ because I was in the middle of the ocean, I was going down, I really didn’t want to go back up and she came and she took me up so that I could take the air, my first breath of air. It’s amazing, she saved my life“, he gets excited.
“I fell with my arms crossed“: Michel Fugain talks about the death of his daughter Laurette in front of Frédéric Lopez
Before ending the show, Frédéric Lopez asks Michel Fugain what life has taught him. “You can fall, it happened to me once. I fell with my arms crossed. The right reaction is not to sit idly by, I became a proselytizer of the desire for life because my child was 22 years old“, he testifies before marking a long pause, overcome by emotion. With tears in his voice, he concludes: “That’s all I have, singing. I don’t have what That. ‘Sing about life, as if you were to die tomorrow’“, he says, repeating the words of this title so emblematic of his repertoire.
