Anthony Kavanagh explains his brush with death in A Sunday in the Country

Comedian Anthony Kavanagh has a brilliant career. However, from a personal point of view, he encountered some significant health problems which he opened up to Frédéric Lopez in A Sunday in the Country this Sunday, March 24.

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This Sunday, March 24, Frédéric Lopez received three new guests in a new issue of A Sunday in the Country on France 2. He welcomed the former Star academician and now singer and novelist Olivia Ruiz, the actress Macha Méril as well as the comedian and host Anthony Kavanagh. Born to parents who fled Haiti and emigrated to Africa then to Canada, the latter spoke of the racism he suffered, the affection he had for his mother and father, his career alongside Céline Dion and other particularly significant moments in his life. He also spoke regarding a personal tragedy.

In A Sunday in the Country, Anthony Kavanagh talks regarding a trip that almost proved fatal to him

During a stay in New Caledonia as part of his tour, when he was 49 years old, Anthony Kavanagh contracted cellulitis, namely a bacterial infection of the skin. “I go to the hospital, I get streptococcus. I had a triple embolism and a pulmonary infarction. And there, you see your life flash before you. The infarction blocks your breathing and you have the impression that “They put a knife in your lung, and I spent a week in intensive care” he remembers before recalling that the medical team “was extraordinary”.

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A Sunday in the countryside: Anthony Kavanagh tells Frédéric Lopez that having a brush with death influenced the rest of his career

Following this tragedy, Anthony Kavanagh wondered regarding the rest of his life and told the host of France 2: “There I say to myself: ‘Okay, I’m still alive, what did you want do that you haven’t done?’ I want to make music so I made my album in English. I’ve been waiting for this for thirty years. I also wanted to do neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).” With humor, he decides to explain what it brought him: “Talk to yourself as if you loved yourself, because often with others we are super nice and we talk to ourselves as if we were the lowest trash. happiness, it starts from the inside and goes outwards and you attract what you are, not what you want. If you are stupid with yourself or others, you will attract stupid people s.” Then he concludes with a laugh: “If you’re surrounded by c**s, ask yourself questions”!