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On the occasion of the release of his autobiography, Florent Pagny gave his news in his fight against lung cancer. Without losing sight of his plans, he admits having to undergo a third chemotherapy, after a relapse discovered recently.
Sunday April 2, Florent Pagny was the guest of Laurent Delahousse on France 2 on the occasion of the release of his autobiography. An appointment in which the artist was transparent about his state of health to date, announcing a third chemotherapy to come.
A relapse after stopping his immunotherapy
A little over a year ago, the singer announced to his fans that he had to cancel his tour due to a cancerous tumor in the lung. After several treatments, Florent Pagny however spoke of a remission in 2022. But last January, a new fit of coughing challenges the singer who is carrying out new examinations. “This is not the scenario we were hoping for. The pictures are not terrible” he says then, mentioning a new lymph node “fixed” that x-rays.
This Sunday, the singer admitted not having followed his protocol to the end, having preferred rest to the prescribed immunotherapy: “I was a little stupid for four, five months and there could have been this relapse. It’s been a month and a half” he admits.
“This disease took me elsewhere, forced me to question”
Florent Pagny therefore goes back to war, against the disease, with a third session of chemotherapy, but also a book and probably other projects.
“Today, I am in a logic where in my projections, there is always this clinical part. There, I’m going to do a third chemo, and then we’ll go and see what happened”. The singer also thinks he will have to undergo immunotherapy this time “for a few years because it works pretty well, but don’t give up.”
The man thus seems to take a new stance on follow-up and cancer in general: “Sif we start to bury ourselves, to go into anxieties to close with just this disease it is not possible” he evokes on France 2.
A force that we find in his autobiography to be published on April 5: “This disease took me elsewhere, forced me to question my fundamentals, to fight for my skin to rebuild myself”, he declares there.
Florent Pagny smoker, the strong image of his cover
For the cover of his autobiography, the singer chose a strong image given his fight against lung cancer: a shot in which Florent Pagny, cigarette in hand, blows his smoke towards the lens. A provocation? Not for the artist who rather aims for a proof of sincerity: “Anyone who has come into my intimacy in the last forty years has necessarily seen me as you see me in the photo”; He also adds: “This photo is the biggest part of my life. It belongs to the past now. In 2021, during the time of writing this book, something happened to me. A page was turned. More no one will see me doing this.”