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"Drugs don't give you talent and that's what saved my life": when Pierre Palmade confided in the media about his drug addiction

2023-02-13T13:46:47.685Z


VIDEO – Friday February 10, the comedian, under the influence of cocaine, was involved in a serious car accident. A relapse for the comedian, who had notably mentioned his addiction in “Touche pas à mon poste!” in 2020.


Fucked as I am, I will go within the same walls.

No slap helped me”

, had testified in 1999 Pierre Palmade in “Everyone talks about it”.

A sequence taken from Thierry Ardisson's show in which the comedian confided in his

"incorrigible"

character .

Words heavy with meaning since this Friday, February 10.

Pierre Palmade was involved in a serious car accident while driving on a secondary road in Seine-et-Marne.

The director violently, while under the influence of cocaine, crashed into another vehicle in which there were three passengers, including a pregnant woman who lost her baby.

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  • Pierre Palmade accident: France 2 broadcasts the terrible images of the vehicles involved

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"The toxicological analyzes showed that Pierre Palmade was driving under the influence of narcotics (cocaine)",

reported the day after the accident the public prosecutor, Jean-Michel Bourlès.

A manslaughter and manslaughter investigation has been opened.

Read also“He was completely haggard”: one of the first firefighters to arrive at the scene of the Pierre Palmade accident testifies on TF1

Since 2019, the year of the release of his autobiography

Tell my father that I am famous,

the sidekick of Muriel Robin and Michèle Larroque has frequently returned to his addiction to drugs on television.

His first significant confessions date back to a number of "On n'est pas couche" where he confessed that

"drugs were his only mistress"

.

A

“relationship”

with cocaine

“born from a bad encounter”

which he previously compared to a

“little illegal champagne”

.

After his appearance on Laurent Ruquier's show, Pierre Palmade had continued to share information with the aim of alerting and preventing the dangers of drugs.

“I treat myself through detoxification treatments, follow-up with addictologists, therapists, Narcotics Anonymous.

It works since I have long periods of abstinence but that does not prevent relapses

, ”he told Le

Point

in 2020. But a few months later in “Touche pas à mon poste!”

the one who called himself a

“survivor”

had not hidden his exasperation with certain remarks about him.

“As soon as I do something a little crazy, I am accused of being stoned”

, declared Pierre Palmade in 2020 in “TPMP”.

After a pub break, the comedian had taken the floor to respond to comments from Internet users who accused him of being under the influence of narcotics in full live.

Stunned, the guest of Cyril Hanouna's talk show had defended himself by explaining that

"alcohol and drugs did not give talent and that he was obliged not to take it to have it"

.

An argument that would have

“saved the life”

of the director.

In early 2021, the then 52-year-old actor said he was in a

“solid recovery phase

”.

At the microphone of Europe 1, he had all the same recognized that his addiction would force him to be

"vigilant all his life".

This Monday, Pierre Palmade is still hospitalized at the Kremlin-Bicêtre.

His days are not in danger.

If the comedian is found guilty, he could face up to ten years in prison and a fine of 150,000 euros.

Source: lefigaro

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