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He calls them “scavengers”. Pierre Richard has rebelled against the media which in recent weeks have relayed false information about his state of health. “After France Sunday, it is here is who persists in suggesting that I may be doomed. I find it despicable, indecent “, asserts the 87-year-old actor who denounces “an intrusion into his privacy”.
“If it was true, I wouldn’t have shot a movie for 8 weeks. The insurance doctor wouldn’t have allowed it.”, continues the one who will be featured in the next Asterix signed Guillaume Canet and Czech comedy Vanocni Pribeh. “If it were true, it would be even worse (…). It would be telling everyone something that I have the right to hide if I were, which is not true”, he hammers.
Pierre Richard then addresses his fans for the “reassure”. “I just have osteoarthritis of the knee”, he says to explain why he was photographed with crutches during the funeral of Jean-Paul Belmondo in September. “I was with two, I’m with one. Soon, I won’t have any more. It’s long but that’s just it”, he says. The actor plays with words, acknowledging that he is “condemned simply to suffer these articles” he finds “absolutely vile”. “I have to put up with them and it’s not easy”, he admits before concluding with a smile. “I’m doing very well, I wish you happy holidays!”, he says a few hours before Christmas Eve that he will spend surrounded by his family.