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“I must no longer be there …”: Gérard Vivès recounts having been close to death
In the program Chez Jordan, unveiled by Télé-Loisirs this Monday, April 4, the actor Gérard Vivès returned to the time he fell five meters on the set of the Just Price, thus narrowly escaping death.
Actor, comedian and host, Gerard Vives has took on several roles during his career. From 2009 to 2011, the one who made himself known by playing in The Girls Next Door had the opportunity to work with Vincent Lagaf’ on the show The right price, which was broadcast on TF1, in “writing sketches”, as he explained this Monday, April 4, on the show At Jordan’s from Tele-Leisure. During this period, the 59-year-old actor almost passed. In fact, he had “a very big accident” on the board, falling from several meters in height.
The cable to which it was attached had “cowardly”. Gérard Vives thus escaped the worst, as he confided in front of the camera: “Normally, I don’t have to be here anymore.” Looking back, the actor erased from his memory the moment when he fell from a height, but remembers his resuscitation and his incomprehension in the face of the situation he had just experienced. “I’m on the ground, they put a neck brace on me and immobilize me because we don’t know if my spine [vertébrale] is broken”, he said, remembering that he no longer felt his legs. Despite the drama, the actor was keen to quickly resume his professional life alongside Vincent Lagaf’. “I’m coming back three months later. I’m not in great shape, but I’m making weight machines so I can train in an upright position”he developed.
A late realization, but quite violent
Even if he had a good state of mind, Gérard Vivès was overtaken by reality, six to eight months later. Falling into depressionthe comedian revealed that he “was not well in [s]headed”, that he “crying[ait] quite easily”, And this, “without knowing why”. “I think it’s the brain that’s unconscious and [qui se dit] ‘Normally, you shouldn’t be here anymore'”, he continued, believing that he then had became aware of his relationship to death. Hanging on to life and staying professional, he summed it up in one sentence: “The show must go on [que l’on peut traduire par : ‘Le spectacle doit continuer, quoi qu’il arrive’, NDLR].“
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias