Today healed, the singer is much better, it is finally that he allows himself to talk about his illness in the columns of the Obs this Thursday, December 8. While he is in concert in Epinay in December 2021, Maxime Le Forestier, 73, faints on stage: “Last year, in Épinay, on December 3, I fainted in the middle of a concert. It had to have its effect in the room”. The artist who wanted to keep the situation under control is delighted with the discretion of his audience following the event: “There was not the shadow of a communication on social networks. Brassens said that his audience had talent. Mine too. »
After many batteries of tests and “investigations”the songwriter reveals that doctors discovered “little crap gathered at the base of the tongue”. Not wishing to name his disease, Maxime Le Forestier prefers to talk about “malignant cells” and not of cancer like his doctor who never pronounced the fateful word either. “I understood this when he prescribed me a series of thirty-five radiotherapy sessions”he explains.
A disease ignored
While some of his fans noticed the singer’s small physical shape, everyone respected the singer’s wish to san francisco to remain discreet. “Unlike chemo, radiotherapy does not cause visible side effects, which allowed me to remain discreet”he reveals in the columns of theObs. A decision that he assumes and explains: “I told myself that if it went wrong, the public would learn the bad news from L’Obs. And if I recovered, only then would I talk about it”. Before adding: “It’s so intimate that everyone reacts as they can, I’m the discreet type, and my audience is complicit”.
If he talks about it openly today, it’s because Maxime Le Forestier is cured! Equipped with a “obstinate character”he wants to continue the tour he had suspended after fainting on stage. “When you fall off your horse, you immediately get back in the saddle, otherwise you’re not sure you’ll be able to get back up one day. “Assures the 73-year-old singer.