"A liter and a half a day”: Patrick Sébastien cash on his past alcoholism

Patrick Sébastien is a man without filter, popular and proud of it, with multiple flaws and a difficult past. In En Aparté on Canal +, he opens up about his alcohol consumption.

This Tuesday on Canal +, the apartment ofAs an aside and the voice of Nathalie Lévy received Patrick Sébastien. If he returned to his SMS exchanges with President Emmanuel Macron, his deceased mother and made an astonishing confidence about a politician whose identity he did not know, the host also mentioned his past. Barely arrived on the beautifully decorated set and just after admiring the view – always personalized for the guest of the moment – of his beloved Dordogne village, Martel, where he lives most of the time, Patrick Sébastien helped himself to a coffee . “I drink about ten a day.“, he launched to a surprised Nathalie Lévy. The opportunity for the host to briefly return to his former addiction to alcohol.

“A liter and a half of whiskey a day”

“Bah, my excesses are not real excesses. I stopped drinking it’s been thirty now… wow. I quit at 32, it will soon be 38 years since I stopped drinking alcohol. It was a liter and a half of whiskey a day. And then I take nothing, but nothing at all. Apart from the cigarette. I know I might not smoke but I am a smoker… I know it hurts me, but as Gainsbourg said: ‘If I am cremated, I would have done half the job.’ “, detailed Patrick Sébastien before moving on to other subjects.

“A prison”

A fight against alcoholism that Patrick Sébastien regularly tackles without embarrassment and without fuss. First festive, the host’s alcohol consumption quickly overtook him. “It’s a trap, it’s a prison, you don’t realize… What’s terrible is that between the fasting guy and the drunk guy, you’re not the same person anymore“he confided to Cyril Hanouna in Do not touch My TV in 2019. And if the duration of this dark period of his life has never really been addressed, Patrick Sébastien has already exposed certain details on the day he stopped: “The day I realized that the hassles exceeded the pleasure“.

As an asidebroadcast unencrypted at 8:35 p.m. on Canal+ from Monday to Friday, from this Thursday, September 15 and to be found in full on the application myCANAL.