The comedian on the rise, justly known for his bon vivant character focused on drink, confides in the Parisian about his health issues.
Chicandier says goodbye to alcohol. In an interview given to Parisianthe 44-year-old comedian confides in his addiction to drink and his decision to get rid of it, after the diagnosis of cirrhosis which acted as an alarm bell.
“It’s not pleasant to hear for his wife, his daughter, his friends… I’m not at the stage of decompensated cirrhosis, I don’t have yellow eyes, but I don’t want to get there”, explains- does he daily. “I want to have a family life, to continue my job. So, if I have to stop, I stop.”
At the very 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, quoting his doctor: “If you continue, you have two more years to live!”. It also announced the discontinuation of Addiction pleasehis web-show in which he interviews a personality around a bottle, to the point of drunkenness.
“I don’t go from ‘I’m good living’ to ‘I’m going vegan'”
Because it is with his bon vivant character very focused on the bottle that Chicandier emerged from anonymity on the web, in 2018. Since then, he has been performing several scenes (he is currently playing the show Morning Singing with Mathou Cann) and he will play Ordralfabetix in the next Asterix by Guillaume Canet:
“This diagnosis was a shock for me,” he explains to the Parisian. “But this health shock, which I am taking in hand, should not also become a professional shock which forces me to stop my job.”
So he announces a new concept called Bacon of living, with an already impressive guest list (Antoine Duléry, Mathieu Madénian, Jérôme Commandeur, Thomas VDB, Cauet), he has “integrated (his) cirrhosis into his show”… and wishes to reassure his fans: “I ( wish) that the public understands that I don’t go from ‘I’m good living’ to ‘I’m going vegan’. It’s 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 didn’t know if I was dead or not. there. And five days later I was doing a Zenith. It’s this madness that sometimes I liked, but for those around me and me, it’s devastating. I think we can do things a little more serenely.”
“Without alcohol, we are funnier, livelier”
Since his decision, Chicandier is already enjoying the benefits of a life of sobriety: “I discovered that I knew how to do my job on an empty stomach and that, often, I am much better: without alcohol, we are funnier, livelier , 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.”
