This Saturday, April 1, TF1 broadcast a new episode of The Voice. Viewers were able to meet Hervé, a candidate who suffers from retinitis pigmentosa. Explanations.
A poignant season. For its 12th edition, The Voice is full of new candidates for the golden voice… and moving personal stories. Between Charles who sang for his deaf son, Hanna who suffers from trichotillomania or even Esme who has a very disabling neurological disorder, viewers have undoubtedly shed a few tears. This Saturday, April 1 may not be an exception. While TF1 was programming the sixth evening of blind auditions, a certain Hervé tried his luck in the competition. “I love being on stage, really“said the 46-year-old man. His presence on the set of The Voice is therefore “a rebirth“ for him.
“The fact of being on a set, the fact of being able to give emotions, it’s wonderful for me“, he added. It must be said that more than his passion, it is his job. Finally, it was. Singer and actor, Hervé has “always been on the boards, all the time, or on television, since the age of 18. I chained the roles in the theater, in musicals“. But that’s a bygone era. In 2014, his life changed. “I was told during a routine visit to an ophthalmologist that I was suffering from retinitis pigmentosa“, he revealed to the camera. It is a degenerative genetic disease that will cause blindness.
Hervé no longer has peripheral vision and must walk with a cane
If, today, Hervé has not completely lost his sight, he still has to walk with a cane. And the least we can say is that the announcement was brutal. “Listen sir, you will losing sight little by little, until you become blind. Good bye, sir“, replayed Hervé, specifying that this “was terrible, terrible“.”It was the world collapsing. It’s no longer about doing musicals or plays because when I’m with other people, I no longer have peripheral vision, I can’t see anything“, he continued. Forced to put his career on hold, Hervé did not hesitate for long when he was offered to participate in The Voice. It is therefore with a song very evocative of his story that he went on stage: Life is Beautiful by Jean Ferrat. More than ever, Hervé marvels at the little pleasures in life.