Michel Fugain touching on the death of his daughter Laurette: “I lost a part of me at the same time”

While he is still performing on stage at the age of 82, Michel Fugain spoke in the new issue of Galato be released this Thursday, January 16. In our pages, the singer returned to the sudden loss of his daughter Laurette in 2002.

With Sanda, Michel Fugain writes a beautiful story. Both personal, but also professional, since the singer is accompanied by his wife, twenty-two years his junior, when he performs on stage. A new life on which he returns, in the new issue of Galaon newsstands this Thursday, January 16. A happiness which comes after the worst tragedy, namely the loss of his daughter, which occurred on May 18, 2002.

It was shortly after this tragedy that Michel Fugain crossed paths with Sanda. The latter occurs in a piano bar in Île-Rousse, where his daughter Laurette comes to cry, who died of leukemia at the age of 22. After the disappearance of Marie’s sister, the singer is at his worst. He suffers from alopecia areata and is even hospitalized in a dermatology department, one floor above his daughter: “I’ve always been lucky. I have always been spoiled by life, and I took Laurette’s illness as a personal attack from destiny.”, he explains. “When he died I both lost a part of myself and had the feeling of hitting the bottom of the pool without tapping my foot hard enough to find the surface.” That’s when Sanda arrived. Like a gift from heaven.

Laurette Fugain “tired” at the end of her life: her sister Marie says

In May 2022, on the occasion of the twenty years since the disappearance of her sister, Marie Fugain agreed to return to this tragedy which hit her family hard. Near Gala.fr, she then explained that Laurette was “really tired” at the end of his life: “Her body couldn’t take it anymore (…) She was at the end of her strength. That day I really understood what it meant”, remembers the actress.

Like her father, Marie Fugain has the feeling of having “lost a piece of (her)” upon the death of his sister. She was also angry with her parents for a sentence they uttered after the loss of their child: “My parents said ‘I died with my daughter’ and I was very angry with them for that statement. Afterwards, we explained and I told them: ‘you can’t say that because there are two left.’ Although I was 28 at the time, I believe that there is no age to need your parents. I wouldn’t say my world fell apart, but the mothership fell apart.”, explains the woman who later became a mother herself.