In an autobiography to be published on April 5, singer Florent Pagny recounts the diagnosis of his lung cancer and the first symptom to which he initially paid no attention.
“There cough is not first evil. Intermittent, it is not a problem for me. This cough that the singer Florent Pagny notices more and more often does not worry him at first as he tells in theautobiography “Pagny by Florent” to be published next Wednesday, April 5 and whose JDD released a few excerpts this Sunday. It is however the first concrete symptom of his lung cancer. “It’s not uncommon to cough when you attack this kind of exercise which consists of soliciting so much, all of a sudden, your vocal cords (the singer is in full tour, editor’s note). (…) If the cough was the result of overuse of my vocal muscles, it should be fine.“, he thinks then. But “on the contrary, it is getting worse. It is especially when I smoke my firecracker that it occurs. I’m starting to think something is wrong. Smoking becomes so unpleasant that I quit. It’s not very difficult because I’ve only ever smoked plants with my weed, so I’m not addicted to nicotine.”
The singer takes exams, the diagnostic is placed in 2021he announces it publicly on instagram in January 2022. “When the information falls I am stunned. I take a slap who fucks me in the air before slamming me to the ground, his throat so tight that I have trouble breathing. The earth is collapsing. This disease took me elsewhere, forced me to question my fundamentals to fight for my skin to rebuild myself. I built myself up until I was 60 now I’m rebuilding myself and it gives me so much strength” he shares again in his book. After a first treatment of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy in 2022, Florent Pagny has been following a new treatment protocol since the beginning of 2023.