Patrick Sébastien wants to help others by talking about his cancer

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(Editions XO), Patrick Sébastien talks about the operation he underwent at the beginning of the year to treat kidney cancer.

Or rather a "lucky", as he calls it, since it was discovered "by chance" during a routine examination and could be caught in time.

It was once cured, "after an operation with eight hours of anesthesia" and "complicated rehabilitation and convalescence", that he decided to speak about it publicly in the hope of "helping some people to keep a little better ".

“It is interesting to mediate when he is cured.

Self-pity is the worst thing to achieve rebirth”, explains, with

, the one who, “two months later”, was back on stage.

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Indeed, for the artist, “the important thing is to do and to stay upright”.

And telling how he recovered from the trials of life in his books visibly helps others.

“I meet lots of people who live better thanks to my books.

It's a real satisfaction,” he adds.

In addition to his cancer, which "was not invasive and did not require chemo", but left him "a scar of 40 centimeters", Patrick Sébastien also evokes his "exemplary separation" from Nana, the mother of his daughter Lilly, and who he was with for 30 years.

“True love is wanting the happiness of the other, even if it is outside of yourself.

(…) I believe in love which excludes possessiveness.

I am libertarian and libertine.

I do what I want, I don't belong to anyone and no one belongs to me", he confides, adding that he has "a lot of respect and admiration for Nana", with whom he continues to work. .

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