Michel Drucker is doing better. According to our information, the 80-year-old animator was able to leave the hospital at the end of last week after a stay of almost two months. The fault of a new heart operation undergone in March at the mitral valve, after the detection of a bacterium during medical examinations. He will now have to undergo a rehabilitation of several weeks.
"Michel is fine. We spoke at length on the phone on Friday, "reassures Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, the director of antennas and programs of France Televisions. If the presenter of "Vive dimanche" on France 3 initially hoped to return to the trays "before the end of the season", his return to the air should now not occur before the beginning of September. "He already has plenty of show ideas for next season and he is preparing for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris," said Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez.
Several serious health problems in recent years
The beginning of 2023 has not been easy for the star of public service. At the beginning of February, Michel Drucker was hospitalized for a week of check-ups in connection with his very heavy heart operation in 2020. This first stay was extended by a fortnight after the discovery by doctors of elements of recurrence requiring additional care. The PAF "taulier" was finally able to return home at the end of February, before being forced to return to the hospital to undergo another major heart operation in March.
In 2020, Michel Drucker had already spent three months in the hands of the medical profession following serious health problems. First for infective endocarditis, then for triple bypass surgery and finally the infection of his scar. He was then operated on for nearly eight hours, as he told us in November of the same year. "My heart was stopped for a few hours and hooked up to a machine. There, I realized that I had come close to disaster, "confided at the time the "miraculous".