For his fans, he is the symbol of the joy of living.
Currently showing his only one on stage,
Happy
, Anthony Kavanagh has just stripped himself bare in the program
Dimanche à la campagne
by Frédéric Lopez, on France 2, revealing that behind his exterior good humor, he hid much suffering.
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Wishing to confide in the throes of his life, the Canadian comedian spoke of the painful disappearance of his mother, his first difficult years in the United States but also the fraud of which he was the victim when in 2006 his producer misappropriated the profits from a show in which he had invested every last penny.
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Anthony Kavanagh's litany of fate did not end there.
In 2019, he came close to death in New Caledonia.
Suffering from cellulitis, a serious bacterial infection of the skin, he had to be hospitalized.
“I go to the hospital and I get strep,”
he says.
I had a triple embolism and a pulmonary infarction.
And there, you see your life flash before you.
It stops your breathing and you feel like someone is sticking a knife in your lung.
I spent a week in intensive care.
What a team, they were extraordinary.”
Having overcome this ordeal, Anthony Kavanagh showed himself to be more philosophical and above all more aware that he had to live his dreams more intensely.
This acrobat with multiple gifts made the decision to launch into music, his other passion:
“There I say to myself: Ok, I’m still alive, what did you want to do that you haven’t done? ?'
I want to make music so I made my album in English.
I’ve been waiting for this for thirty years
. ”
After this musical interlude which put him back on track, Kavanagh returned to the forefront with
Happy
.
And he assures it on the poster of this one-man show, very much in his optimistic vein:
“one thing is certain, when you leave my show, you will be pumped up”.
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Happy
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