Michel Drucker has come a long way. In September 2020, he had to undergo a very heavy heart operation which could very well have gone badly. But that was without counting on the courage and determination of the presenter of France 2. While he’s back at work with his show Roll on Sunday, he agreed to answer Laurent Delahousse’s questions, Sunday April 25, 2021, in 8:30 p.m. Sunday. The opportunity for the 78-year-old host to make some confidences on the hesitations he may have had during his long period of convalescence. It was notably marked by the announcement of Jean-Pierre Pernaut to stop the presentation of the JT of the 13 hours of TF1. “I’m in my bed. He’s 70, I’m eight more and he’s leaving. I tell myself that he might be right. He was ill. I may be sorry for wanting to hang on, for wanting to come back, you are a wreck, you are a puppet, you are in pieces, but there is nothing to do, the will to live was stronger“, he declared in front of the companion of Alice Taglioni.
Michel Drucker was able to count on Claude Lelouch to re-motivate him
Michel Drucker also returns to this period of doubt in his book, It will be better tomorrow, which will be on newsstands on April 29th. Only, he was able to count on the support of his friend, Claude Lelouch who assured him thathe still had great things to achieve and that if he had survived this heavy operation, it was because there was a reason. “He whispered to me a chapter title of my book which is’ The best years of a life are those that we have not yet lived“, once again confided the famous host of France Televisions. Today, even if he still has some sequelae of his illness, especially in his leg, he still has great projects in mind and intends to do everything to make them succeed. Until his last breath, Michel Drucker will always want to do television.
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