MICHEL DRUCKER OPERE – After 3 months of hospitalization and 2 operations, Michel Drucker gives its news and talks about his desire to return to the screen. He tells all in an interview for Le Parisien.
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[updated December 01, 2020 at 16h03] One knows more about the transaction that has incurred Michel Drucker. At the end of August, the facilitator has been hospitalised at the hôpital Georges-Pompidou, Paris, for infectious endocarditis. It has infected his heart and has also affected the mitral valve, the spleen and the kidney. This bacterium is also being extended to the artery of his right leg, he might have to amputate. Despite the artery uncorked, the valve being always infected, the operation was inevitable. Surgeons have also discovered the need to perform a triple heart bypass. In an interview in Paris on November 30, 2020, Michel Drucker explains his fears and his doubts during these 3 months of hospitalization.
“I’m a survivor”
The operation lasted for 8 hours, with a anesthesia of 15 hours and then the resuscitation and intensive care, we learn in the interview. “My heart has been stopped for a few hours and plugged in to a machine. There, I realized to have close to disaster”. Michel Drucker has had to undergo a second surgery because of the onset of infection, a result of the previous operation. After these weeks of hardship, he is currently in the fourth week of rehabilitation at the clinique Bizet, and should be out within a week, but will still be two months of rehabilitation in front of him. For him, the hardest part was the pain at night. “The slightest cough, it is a horror. This is the rib cage that is painful.”
Drucker thought in his return to the screen and on the boards
in Love with his job, Michel Drucker is looking forward to regain the plateau of “Vivement Dimanche”. Reasonable in his words “I will come back if I’m at the top, and even more”, the facilitator already has ideas of what he wants in his show. “For next September, I want to make head-to-head, in-depth interviews”. On the scene, it is not a question of stop no longer, for Michel Drucker. He would like to make a mockery of these 6 months of disease. The shows have been deferred one year with the pandemic of the Covid-19, he mentions, however, “at the end of march, I’m going to take a few dates in the region of paris”.
Biography of Michel Drucker
Born on 12 September 1942 in Vire, Calvados, Michel Drucker is a monument of French television. From school dropout to self-taught, he became an animator on the iconic ORTF, TF1 and then France 2, with its emissions cults “Champs-Elysées” and “Vivement dimanche”. Always on France 2, the facilitator gives the impression that his presence is eternal on our small screens.
The youth of Michel Drucker
Michel Drucker is the son of Abraham Drucker, immigrant jew arrived in France in 1925 and became a doctor, and Lola Schafler, nurse. They are naturalized in 1937. During the Second world War, her father was arrested because of a denunciation and became physician-in-chief in the camp of Drancy. During this time, his mother, pregnant with Michel Drucker and accompanied by his elder brother, suffered a control to the Rennes train station by an officer of the Gestapo. She is saved by Pierre Le Lay (the father of Patrick Le Lay, president and ceo of the tv channel TF1 from 1988 to 2008 and creator of TVBreizh), by making believe to the soldier that she is his wife.
Michel Drucker first made his studies at the lycée Emile-Maupas of Turns and then to the technical high school in Caen, where he obtained a brevet of business education. In 1962, he completed his military service in Compiègne, in one of the services of the magazine Land-Air-Sea. Due to this, there approach of tv journalists coming from the centre Alfred-Lelluch of the ORTF. Raised in a family where it is necessary to be excellent in his studies, he is considered a dunce, his father telling him, “But that is what we will do to you ?”. At the age of 17, he left the family home in order to succeed and become self-taught.
Michel Drucker, the host of the television and radio, and Michel Drucker at the age of 33 in 1975 © JEANNEAU/SIPA
Michel Drucker begins his career thanks to Pierre Sabbagh, who offered him an internship at Sports Sunday in 1964. He learned his trade at the ORTF, thanks to men such as Léon Zitrone and Georges de Caunes. From 1965 to 1968, he presents the topic sports during the newscast. In 1966, he presents a new variety show by the name of “Tilt”, he meets the generation of Hi friends, notably Claude François and Johnny Hallyday, who will become close friends. After you have been off the chain for having participated in the demonstrations of may 1968, he returned as a commentator in the official football events from 1969 to 1986. From 1975, he turns to the entertainment programs, such as The Rendez-vous of Sunday, and the Stars on TF1 and then “C
