Lara Fabian was the guest of the set of C to You this Tuesday, November 22. The opportunity for the singer to make some confidences and to evoke this day when she sang for Mikhail Gorbachev when she had two broken vertebrae.
Lara Fabian is an artist who needs no introduction. It has been on the front of the stage for several years and it is very popular with the French. At the end of September, the singer published her autobiography titled All. In this book, she spoke about her private life and in particular a very important health concern. In 2010, she broke two vertebrae. A period which was very complicated for her and on which she wished to return this Tuesday, November 22. Guest of the show C à Vous, Lara Fabian chained the confidences. Émilie Tran Nguyen first reminds him that she is very well known in Russia and that her song I like you is much appreciated. She then specifies that she had the chance to sing for Mikhail Gorbachev. “You were invited for her 80th birthday in London“, launches the journalist. “Yes, I sang in memory of his wife, who loved my song. He asked me for his 80th birthday to sing this song“, recalled Lara Fabian before adding that she had two broken vertebrae. “I did it on morphine, with a corset. It was pretty crazy cause I was really high for the twenty minutes on stage but it happens in life“, she continued before declaring that she has good memories of this performance. “It was magical to be there anyway. I could have not been there“, concluded Lara Fabian.
The facts date back to 2010 when Lara Fabian was shopping. In wanting to lift products, she saw her “two vertebrae, L5 and S1 break“, she wrote in her autobiography. “My gaze blurred in the searing pain and I collapsed in the middle of the bags“, she then specified. Quickly taken care of by the medical profession, she had to undergo an MRI which quickly gave a diagnosis indicating that her vertebrae were broken. The beginning of a very complicated period. “I had no more discs, no more isthmus. The fracture was so crooked that my X-rays went around to several specialists. Some of them remained skeptical about the prognosis“, she said in her book. Despite this major health concern, the singer did not want to take a break in her career and it was under morphine that she went on stage several times. to be able to surprise Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the USSR, a custom-made corset had been made.”They urgently make me a metal and rubber corset made to measure, with a mechanism of pistons which acts on the elongation of the column”, she recalled in her autobiography. A performance that took place in the best conditions but, in the face of pain, Lara Fabian was then forced to cancel the rest of her tour, following the advice of doctors.
Lara Fabian: with whom will she soon share the poster at the cinema?
Renowned singer, Lara Fabian also becomes an actress. She does his first steps in the cinemain a Canadian film which has not yet been released in France and which is called Arlette. A small role which he liked very much and which also allowed him to share the poster with Maripier Morin. A shoot of which she keeps a very funny memory since it was during the period of Covid-19. “We are in the famous period where we can not touch, not kiss. We both have silicone masks. To make the kissing scene possible, I’m kissing a silicone tube“, she remembered before adding: “The giggles we had with the Covid agent who said in the corner : ‘Stop, you are too close’ during all the filming, we laughed a lot“. An unforgettable moment for Lara Fabian, who works with the greatest.