“I fell into a disease called addiction”
: on several occasions, Pierre Palmade confided in the media on several occasions about his addiction to cocaine.
He also evoked his anguish of aging the spiral of detoxification cures and relapses.
At 54, the comedian was seriously injured Friday in a car accident, which also left three seriously injured, including a child and a pregnant woman who lost her baby.
According to a police source, he tested positive for cocaine.
Under investigation for manslaughter, he now faces up to 150,000 euros and ten years in prison.
Convinced that
"life only lasts for a boom"
, Pierre Palmade was sentenced in 1995 for cocaine consumption.
On April 11, 2019, he was placed in police custody for
“use and acquisition of narcotics”.
A few days later, during an interview with
Le Monde
, he said
"having had a bad encounter in a bar with a boy who had taken the same drugs"
as him.
“But, because of our condition, we got confused and I asked him to leave.
He didn't want to and said to me: "Since it's like that, I'm going to destroy your career and tell you that you drugged me and raped me",
added the actor.
The young man, aged 19 at the time of the incident,
"admitted to having lied".
As for Pierre Palmade, he affirmed that
“this relapse”
had
“brought him back to reality”
.
New relapse
On the occasion of the publication in 2019 of his autobiography,
Tell my father that I am famous
, Pierre Palmade defined himself on the set of host Laurent Ruquier as
"alcoholic and cocaine addict, cocaine addict"
.
“I didn't know at 20 that it was a disease, I thought it was entertainment. I suspected at 30 that it was poison. At 40, I was sure that I was a cocaine addict and that I was going to the wall, and I've been trying to stop for ten years
, ”he confided.
In an interview granted at the same time to the newspaper
Le Parisien
, the humorist seemed to make a commitment:
"At 50, I want to live in peace, in my job as in my private life, to turn the page of 'a certain intense, too intense, too violent life with alcohol and drug problems, which I am in the process of dealing with.
Since then, Pierre Palmade had decided to move away from Parisian life and solicitations by acquiring a house in Seine-et-Marne, in Cély-en-Bière, which has since been put up for sale.
A home that was searched on Sunday by the police in charge of the investigation.
In another register, he had explained in several media that drugs and alcohol helped him to accept being homosexual:
When I was fasting, I wanted to be straight at all costs.
With alcohol and drugs, I had the freedom to be gay, I no longer judged myself, had fun.
Last year, Muriel Robin, one of Pierre Palmade's closest friends and several times a stage partner, confided that the comedian
"scared him, a lot"
.
“He puts himself in danger so of course we are afraid
,” she said.
According to relatives, Pierre Palmade had been in a relapse phase since the fall.
The filming of his "Grand restaurant", a series of unpublished sketches with a host of actors and comedians broadcast in mid-December on M6, had thus been
"very complicated"
.
The toxicological analyzes carried out after the accident on Friday February 10 thus revealed that
“Pierre Palmade was driving under the influence of narcotics (cocaine)
”, reported Jean-Michel Bourlès, the public prosecutor of Melun.
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