Thursday, December 8, 2022, Maxime Le Forestier gave an interview to L’Obs. In all transparency, the singer revealed how a simple discomfort on stage had allowed him to discover that he was affected by a terrible disease.
Revelations that fans did not expect… At 73, Maxime Le Forestier has an exceptional career and has sold many albums. In shape, the singer has released a new live album, titled We finally found a dateand is about to go on tour for homage to Georges Brassens. The singer will perform Thursday, December 15, 2022 in Boulogne-Billancourt, before meeting his fans across France in 2023. He will notably go on stage in Toulouse, Bordeaux, Tours, Nancy, Strasbourg, Versailles, Nantes, Saint-Etienne, or again, Annecy. If Maxime Le Forestier is in better shape than ever, he was struck down by illness last year. Thursday, December 8, 2022, in an interview with L’Obs, he first said: “Last year, in Épinay, on December 3, I fainted in the middle of a concert. It definitely had its effect in the room.“Referring to the discretion of his fans on this subject, the singer slipped: “There was not the shadow of a communication on social networks. Brassens said that his audience had talent. Mine too.“
Asked about how he had experienced this discomfort, the famous interpreter of san francisco joked: “I love to pass out (…) It has always brought me luck.“In a more serious tone, Maxime Le Forestier revealed that this discomfort led to the discovery that he had cancer of the tongue. “The firefighters took me to the hospital, where they made me a battery of exams and, by dint of investigations, they discovered me little crap gathered at the base of the tongue“, he revealed. Modest, the artist preferred not to speak about the disease and to wait to be cured to evoke it in the media. “Until then, I spoke of ‘malignant cells’. The ENT specialist at Institut Curie who told me the news didn’t mention the word ‘cancer’ either. I understood this when he prescribed me a series of thirty-five radiotherapy sessions“, he confided, before adding: “Unlike chemo, radiotherapy does not cause visible side effects, which allowed me to remain discreet.“
Maxime Le Forestier: this other health glitch experienced by the artist
Saturday June 15, 2019, the singer had granted an interview to the Parisian on the occasion of the release of his 16th album. When he had just celebrated his 70th birthday, he confided: “I feel good at that age. I stopped chasing time, because I hate losing. I’m just trying to be careful, to walk more.“Maxime Le Forestier added that he experienced a health glitch.”Last year, I scared myself. An artery got clogged while I was walking my dog. I called on the 15th, a helicopter landed in the field, heading for Tours hospital. They have done wonders. The next day, I was running like a rabbit. But if there hadn’t been a helicopter… A bunch of friends from the Blue House didn’t have my luck.“, he pointed out.