Chicandier says goodbye to alcohol. In an interview granted to Parisianthe 44-year-old comedian is confident in his addiction to drinking and his decision to get rid of it, after the diagnosis of cirrhosis that acted as an alarm bell.
“It’s not nice to listen to your wife, your daughter, your friends… I’m not in the stage of decompensated cirrhosis, I don’t have yellow eyes, but I don’t want to get there,” he explains daily. . “I want to have a family life, continue with my work. So if I have to stop, I quit.”
At the beginning of January, Chicandier had announced his illness to his subscribers on Instagram: “That’s it, the ax has fallen! I have cirrhosis!”, he wrote, citing his doctor: “If you continue, you have two more years” . Live! “. She also announced the suspension of addiction pleasehis web-show in which he interviews a character around a bottle, to the point of intoxication.
“I don’t go from ‘I live well’ to ‘I’m going vegan'”
Because it is with his bon vivant character, very focused on the bottle, that Chicandier came out of anonymity on the web, in 2018. Since then, he has been doing several scenes (he is currently performing the show morning song with Mathou Cann) and will play Ordralfabetix in the next asterix by Guillaume Canet:
“This diagnosis was a shock to me,” he explains to the Parisian. “But this health shock, which I am taking, must not also become a professional shock that forces me to quit my job.”
So he announces a new concept called live bacon, with an already impressive guest list (Antoine Duléry, Mathieu Madénian, Jérôme Commandeur, Thomas VDB, Cauet), has “integrated (his) cirrhosis into his show”… and wishes to reassure his followers: “I (wish) that the public understands that I did not go from ‘I am good life’ to ‘I am vegan’. It is not that at all”. He also recounts a traumatic episode due to his addiction:
“In May I fell 5 meters from a wall in Figueras, I ended up in a wheelchair, in the emergency room in Perpignan with my wife who did not know if I was dead or not. And five days later I was doing a Zenith. It is this madness that Sometimes I liked it, but for those around me and for me, it’s devastating. I think we can do things with a little more serenity.”
“Without alcohol, we are more fun, more lively”
Since his decision, Chicandier has already enjoyed the benefits of a sober life: “I discovered that I knew how to do my job on an empty stomach and that, many times, I am much better: without alcohol, we are more fun, more animated.” more attentive,” he explains.
“When I performed sober last week for the first time in my life, I realized that I really was a comedian and I loved it. It took me four years to tell myself that.”
Source: BFM TV
