"It's a bit of my fault": why Florent Pagny feels guilty about the possible recurrence of his cancer

Solène Delinger 11:46 a.m., March 06, 2023

Florent Pagny's fight against his lung cancer is not yet behind him.

Invited to the program

which devoted an exceptional portrait to him on Sunday March 5, 2023, the 61-year-old singer announced that he had been diagnosed with a "lymph node" with "risk of metastasis". 

"It's taking over my life even more"

A blow for the artist, who had nevertheless had some warning signs last November.

Journalist Audrey Crespo-Mara had met him at that time in New York, before seeing him again at the end of January in Patagonia, where he lives with his wife and their two children.

Florent Pagny was in the United States to help his daughter move in and was rather optimistic about her state of health, despite the few "whitish spots"

observed during his last examinations.

"It's not a recurrence, because there is no infection (...) it would rather be scars from rays", he confides then to Audrey Crespo-Mara. 

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His Parisian doctors are worried, and advise him to return to France to follow immunotherapy sessions.

Florent Pagny, eternal rebel, refuses and replies to them: "It's taking over my life even more. I followed you until the end of the treatment as you asked me to. (...) But I have to go on living. I can't be waiting for results, scans, things that take between 15 days and a month... I can't live in this all the time. I allow myself to take six months, without doing anything, to see if I can have good results. If something happens, we'll see. I'll do my checks…".

"We're going to do what we have to do"

The singer therefore returned to Patagonia.

A choice he regrets a little today.

"If I had been in France for the past five months maybe I wouldn't have this lymph node, if I had followed the planned program, it's a bit my fault", he assures facing Audrey Crespo-Mara from her residence in Argentina, where the journalist joined her at the end of January.

"If I had been in France, I might not have this lymph node. It's a bit my fault."

Patagonia, January 2023. #FlorentPagny announces "not terrible images" on the scanner.

He must resume his immunotherapy treatment, interrupted when he left France 5 months ago.

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"But hey, we're not going to be afraid, freaking out, we're going to do what we have to do", continues the singer who has therefore returned to France to "see what's going on".

"It never stops," laments the singer.

"There is always something that ends up reappearing, the other time it was the white spots, now it's a ganglion that marks, I didn't do the immunotherapy treatment so I have to quickly return the do”, he assures, determined to treat himself to avoid a recurrence of his cancer.