Eric Serra, famous composer since the soundtrack of the cult film
Le grand bleu
, is in remission from a “
dazzling
” cancer, he reveals on Wednesday July 20 on the
Parisian website.
“
I had small bowel lymphoma.
It's lymph node cancer.
He was quite dazzling, explains the 62-year-old musician.
Within a few days, if I hadn't noticed it, I might not be here to tell you about it
.
What helped him during his treatment was having “
talked a lot
” about it with Florent Pagny, who was being treated for a cancerous tumor in the lung.
"
It's behind me
," he posted on Instagram on May 10.
“
We exchanged little messages, we called each other, says Serra.
Casually, this complicity did me a lot of good, and I imagine that to him too.
(…) We were talking about ''chemo'', about what we felt
”.
"
We healed in parallel, he adds.
Florent is particularly positive
”.
Serra, who had had to cancel his tour of cinema-concerts for the
Grand Bleu
soundtrack , Luc Besson's flagship film, will be able to give it in the fall.
Read alsoFlorent Pagny cancels his tour because of a “cancerous tumor in the lung”
The composer also confides that he had to live in seclusion because the professor of medicine treating his case had warned him: “
This specific cancer is the only one that is 100% incompatible with Covid.
If you ever catch it before the end of the treatment, you have very little chance of getting out of it
”.
And to tell: “
A few days later, my daughter had the Covid.
I lived for five months (...) cloistered completely.
I did not approach my children closer than 3 meters
”.