A sweet return to the past. On Friday March 29, 2024, the host of It starts today, had the joy of receiving stars from the 1980s to the 2000s on her set. Today, aged 45, Faustine Bollaert took pleasure in diving back into her memories, particularly when one of her guests. The lucky one was none other thanHerbert Leonardnow aged 79. “It’s true that I took great pleasure in immersing myself in these images”, assured Maxime Chattam’s companion about videos where we see the singer in 1987, swaying his hips with his back to the ocean to one of his hits. Confidence for confidence, she then shyly confessed to the latter her feelings at the time: “Herbert, I was a little in love with you”. Not enough to destabilize the singer, who immediately added by asking him in a humorous tone: “Why a little?”. To which the interested party replied: “Because I was a little young“before finally laughing at the situation.
Herbert Léonard, victim of several health problems
One thing is certain, after a difficult time for Herbert Léonard, due to health concerns, this declaration must have pleased him. Already in 2018, he came to confide in the show about the terrible car accident which almost cost him his life in March 1970. Since then, the star singer of the 80s has experienced many misadventures. In 2017, he first confided that he had been the victim of a pulmonary embolismfollowing which he was plunged in a coma for 32 days, an episode during which he allegedly had a near-death experience. Which did not prevent the interpreter from “For pleasure”, to announce a few months later, his return to the stage, to the great relief of his fans. But a few years later, it was the turn of Covid-19 to seriously affect him, to the point of being hospitalized. “I spent more than a month hospitalized on oxygen again because of a severe Covid”he explained to the newspaper France Sundayon Friday May 5, 2023. Shortly after, it was his wife Cléo who announced to her fans via the social network Facebook that her husband had been admitted to the intensive care unit from Fontainebleau hospital: “A microbe (that the hospital workers are tracking) has once again taken possession of Herbert and its search and location are the very essence of the hospital”. A dark series of health problems which did not prevent the artist from being present on set today.