INTERVIEW
A former Paris Opera dancer, Patrick Dupond, also a juror of Danse avec les Stars , could never have rededicated. This is what he tells in the show that is good on Europe 1, interviewed by Anne Roumanoff. At issue: a terrible car accident in 2000, which resulted in 134 fractures and paralysis.
While returning from a demounting operation beaches after the oil spill caused by the sinking of the Erika, between Le Havre and Paris, Patrick Dupond lost consciousness, intoxicated by fuel oil. "134 fractures, three artificial vertebrae, the hand torn off, three fractures of the skull, several comas, and awakening, quadriplegia". The doctor who cares for him then gives him a first prognosis: "Walking, perhaps, dancing, never again." It is rebuilding, however, and will come back on stage only nine months later.
Patrick Dupond, who notes the candidates of the show emblematic of TF1 since last year, will participate Saturday night in a new dance number with the stars.