“I didn’t sleep, it upset me”, the discreet Thierry Lhermitte breaks the silence

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More than a month ago, on Thursday October 3, Michel Blanc left us. The actor, who became famous in France for having interpreted the famous Jean-Claude Dusse in the movies The Bronzedbetween 1978 and 2006, died at age 72.

The same night, his friend and partner in the legendary Splendid troupe, Gérard Jugnot, published a message on Instagram in which he wrote: “Damn Michel… What did you do to us…”. But one of his most faithful acolytes, his friend, the actor Thierry Lhermitte, had still not spoken.

It is now done in the columns of the Parisian.

“I read everything he had written”

On the occasion of the release of a work to be published on November 20, entitled The Splendid on the Splendidpublished by Cherche Midi, Thierry Lhermitte returns to this painful episode. All of this, while the work is a collective biography to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary troupe.

At the time, during the disappearance of Michel Blanc, Thierry Lhermitte declared: “We are not forced to share our pain”. A loss all the more painful as the two actors were very invested in the creation of this book.

It is therefore quite natural, for the release of the tribute, that Thierry Lhermitte returns to this heartbreaking period. “The day Michel died, I didn't sleep, I read everything he had written, it shocked me,” Thierry Lhermitte told the daily.

Another heartbreak: Michel Blanc had received, three days before his death, the work that was going to be printedaccording to Thierry Lhermitte. Could he have looked through them? Impossible to know. “What I said to Michel was recorded a month before his death, I was happy at the idea of ​​him discovering it, but he must not have had the time to read it,” concludes the actor.

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