2024-01-15 02:30:00
Éric Lapointe was plunged into an artificial coma at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal in 2009, following trying to wean himself off alone, we learned Sunday evening, during an interview he gave to Sophie Of the rock.
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“I sank into a coma, they took me out of the coma and they put me back into the coma for fear of psychosis,” said the singer, during his interview with the columnist. The rocker collapsed at home following trying to stop drinking alone and take up exercise.
“I’m lucky there was someone with me who called the ambulance,” he admitted. The singer of My angel was, following this incident, hospitalized for a month.
At the hospital, his agent did everything to preserve his client’s dignity. However, he took a photograph of him bedridden and intubated, to shake him up.
- See the photo in question in the video above.
“I asked him to give me a copy. I wanted to display it in the bathroom of my room to remind myself every morning… as if to motivate me to get through the day without drinking,” said the 54-year-old singer, who was convinced at the time, following this episode, that he would never touch a drop of alcohol once more.
“Alcohol is definitely the fight of my life,” he admitted, confiding that he drank his first drops around the age of 12-13.
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“I have an unfortunate predisposition to dependence on alcohol, medication, drugs… I am emotionally dependent, adrenaline dependent, stage dependent, dependent…” he then said. admitted to his interlocutor.
The latter also says he reached rock bottom during the COVID-19 lockdown, during which he improperly “put his emotions to sleep”, but that the pride of his sons in seeing him sober gives him the courage to persevere.
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