"I was afraid of losing my pants": Michel Drucker recounts his return to television

After having undergone an open heart operation last September, Michel Drucker returned to the trays in March, on his program "Vivement dimanche".

Guest of Culture Médias, Wednesday, he confided in his reunion with television and his fears, explaining now working his memory continuously.

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He himself says he came from the dead.

After being the victim of an open heart operation last September, Michel Drucker has just returned to the television sets for his show

Vivement dimanche,

March 28.

The famous French animator recounts this ordeal in the book 

Ça ira Better Tomorrow,

 published by Robert Laffont,

and

was the guest of Pascal Vandel in Culture Médias, Wednesday.

He confided with humor on his return to the air and on the apprehensions he had to manage for this reunion.

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"I was afraid of missing the step"

"We recorded a few days before, on March 24. There was one of my cardiologists in the background. Delphine Ernotte was there in charge and Marianne Siproudhis, who takes care of the advertising, supported me a lot", a he began to explain. 

Since his operation, the facilitator still suffers from a small paralysis in the left foot.

An omnipresent embarrassment in his mind at the time of reunion with the set.

"I was mostly afraid of missing the step when I got there. And I was also afraid of losing my pants, as I lost a size. So when the gigantic door of

Vivement dimanche

opened, I was mainly thinking about that. ", laughed Michel Drucker. 

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But beyond the physical fears, he also explained that he feared potential physiological consequences linked to his operation.

"I was especially afraid of having lost the fluidity of language, intellectual dexterity and of being slowed down in terms of memory. It is also for this reason that I work a lot on my memory," he said. he recognized.

Comment on live matches to work on your memory

And for good reason, the host had taken with him in the studio sheets with the compositions of the PSG and Manchester City teams, in anticipation of the semi-final first leg of the Champions League this Wednesday evening. 

"I know the Paris team by heart. And tonight in my bed, I will comment on the game for myself. I did it during the match against Bayern, my wife almost called a psychiatrist. I mute the sound and I comment on the match. This is how I maintain my memory to know if I am still in the game, since it has been my life for years. I have commented on five World Cups and it is a very good exercise ", explained the host.

To prepare for his return to television, Michel Drucker finally told of learning texts by heart.

"I always have small files with me".