In 2013, Mathias Malzieu was diagnosed with a serious and very rare disease: idiopathic aplastic anemia, which affects the bone marrow. Hospitalized in Germany, the singer of Dionysos then benefited from a transplant. A few months later, he met his donor. An experience from which he came out "transformed", he tells the microphone of Europe 1.

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"A survivor process." Diagnosed in 2013 with a very rare disease of the bone marrow, an idiopathic aplastic anemia, the singer of Dionysos survived thanks to a transplant. While French law provides for the anonymity of the donor and the recipient, Mathias Malzieu was able to meet the woman who made his donation. Several months after his recovery, he spent a day with the one who calls his "biological family". An experience that "transformed" him, he tells the microphone of Europe 1.

"I received a letter from my donor"

The meeting took place thanks to the book he wrote on his illness, Diary of a vampire in pajamas (Albin Michel). Hospitalized in Düsseldorf, Germany, Mathias Malzieu then knew nothing about his donor. Of her, he only knows the "code name", the number which appears on his medical file. "I copied it into my book without thinking about it," recalls the singer. Information does not go unnoticed. A few months later, his book, published in Germany, ends up in the hands of the hospital director. "I received a letter from her. She told me that she entered this number in the files, that the woman in question also worked in the hospital," he said.

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The director offers the book to the donor, without telling her that it is about her. "When the book was finished, she told him 'look at the code, it's you'," explains Mathias Malzieu. The donor, moved, wishes to meet him. Neither one nor two, Mathias Malzieu gets on his bike and leaves Paris, direction Düsseldorf. "I slept in huts, in fields, on a barge. I crossed Belgium in the rain", he recounts. "We had an extraordinary moment of sweetness and simplicity," says the singer. A day he came home from, he says, "a little bit transformed".