On March 6, Alain Souchon will participate in the program Zone Interdite, which dedicates its magazine to Alzheimer’s disease. A disease they know well since his mother had it.
Restricted zone will propose, next Sunday, March 6, a documentary on Alzheimer’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive loss of memory and certain intellectual functions. During Ophélie Meunier’s show, Alain Souchon will intervene, with his son Peter. The two singers know this neurodegenerative attack perfectly well sinceshe took away their mother and grandmother. The singer ofHello boo mom and his son confided in an interview with TV 7 Days.
Alain Souchon revealed that his mother no longer recognized him : “She even called me Jacques Chirac!”, he recalls. And to add: “Every time we went to visit him, we left with the blues.” Laurent Voulzy’s accomplice even summed up the situation by launching: “It’s like death before death.” Alzheimer’s disease can be hereditary, which worries the Souchon family. “With age, we look much more for names. It inevitably makes you think”, recognizes Pierre Souchon. As for his father, he recalls that if the cure for this disease has still not been found, “Early detection can slow down its development.”
Alain Souchon: Alzheimer’s patients lose their “dignity at the same time as their memory”
This is not the first time that Alain Souchon has mentioned his mother’s illness. In 2016, he spoke about it on the set of Big 8. The singer had already confessed that visiting him was painful for him. “It wasn’t very funny (…) I felt that she felt that it was someone close, a little close, but she did not know who I was”, he remembered. In an interview at Our timehe also considered that people with Alzheimer’s disease lose their “dignity as well as memory”.
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