“My kid was 22”

At the microphone of Frédéric Lopez in A Sunday in the countryside (France 2) this January 5, Michel Fugain burst into tears when talking about the death of his daughter Laurette.

Losing a child is, without a doubt, the worst experience a parent can go through. This unspeakable drama, Michel Fugain experienced it in 2002: that year, the interpreter of the titles A beautiful story et Do like the bird lost her daughter Laurette. The young woman, who was then 22 years old, died of leukemia. His death was precipitated by complications linked to a bone marrow transplant to treat his cancer. Although modest, the 82-year-old singer and composer has spoken on this subject a few times in the media. Particularly in The secret box (France 3) Friday January 3. “I put Laurette’s ashes under an olive tree” he notably recalled. But also this January 5 in the show A Sunday in the countryside broadcast on France 2. In this new issue of the very popular Sunday program, Frédéric Lopez received the singer, but also the fencer Manon Apithy-Brunet and the physiotherapist Grégoire Gibault.

The interpreter of Live life retraced his journey and discussed his childhood with a father who was a medical doctor and a figure of the Resistance. His successes and the Big Bazar troupe were also put on the table. Impossible, for the one that music lovers will be able to find on April 30 on the stage of the Cirque Royal in the company of other artists, not to express himself about his child, when the journalist asked him what life had taught him . “You can fall, it happened to me once, I fell with my arms crossed. [Mais] the right reaction is not to stay [ainsi]he estimated. From then on, I became a proselytizer of life, of the desire for life.” “Because my kid, she was 22 years old, so…”he continued. Before stopping for a few moments, his eyes filled with tears, assailed by a wave of emotion. “That’s all I have to singconcluded the artist, his voice trembling. The life.” A powerful testimony which inevitably touched the other people present on the France 2 set.

Michel Fugain: he overcame the death of his daughter Laurette thanks to his wife Sanda

Last fall, Michel Fugain was the guest of What an era! to promote his new album Life, love, etc.. At Léa Salamé’s microphone, he declared his love for his partner Sanda, a singer of Romanian origin twenty-two years his junior, who helped him get back on his feet following the death of his daughter. He met her in Corsica, just two months after the tragedy: “I think my life is bad. I came across [elle]. At 22, if someone had passed by and said to me ‘in Bucharest there is a baby who has just been born. She will be your wife… She’s the woman of my life .” It was two years after they met that their relationship began, after the artist’s divorce from his first wife. The couple married in 2014. In November 2024, at the microphone of Éric Dussart in We’re doing TV againhe said he considered it as “the mermaid who brought him to the surface” he who was sinking into pain.

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