Suffering from a cancerous tumor in the lung, Florent Pagny announced on January 25, 2022 to end his career.
After six months of chemotherapy and X-rays, the singer
"feels better and better"
and announced to his fans:
"Normally, if all goes well, next year we will finally meet together to sing."
Soon a year after the announcement of his illness, his relatives, and in particular Azucena Caamaño, his wife, return to this long and painful ordeal in a documentary.
Florent Pagny, a free man
will be broadcast on TF1 on January 1, 2023. The singer's wife tells how her husband learned of his lung cancer.
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The 60-year-old artist performed a chest X-ray after contracting Covid-19.
“He calls me, he was preparing his funeral.
I tell him: wait, stop, it can be anything, wait to know a little more, to do the studies you need, calm down
, ”says Azucena Caamaño.
“All of a sudden (…) things get worse, it's not operable, it's a nasty tumour.
It will be necessary to attack a violent treatment
, remembers Azucena Caamaño.
"An explosion"
The diagnosis has fallen, Florent Pagny must announce the news to his fans, cancel his concerts, his 60th anniversary tour.
The singer chose Instagram.
He writes a speech, too long, which he repeats.
"Five minutes of video, I tell him it's not okay, he starts to give details, almost he gives the name of the laboratories (....) And there the children tell him no dad an Instagram message no more than one minute and a half
,” says Azucena Caamaño.
Support is plentiful.
Among them, Nikos Aliagas or his friend Patrick Bruel who confides in the documentary learning about the disease was
“an explosion”
for Florent Pagny.
Today, the singer of
Caruso
is better.
He announced in mid-December to resume music.
Good news for his fans since he plans to go back on a festival tour in the summer of 2023. Florent Pagny should be at Nîmes on June 30.
