This Wednesday, March 1, the Touche pas à mon poste team received on set Claude Fournier, the former producer of Pierre Palmade. The latter spoke regarding the comedian’s descent into hell.
Currently hospitalized in Kremlin-Bicêtre due to a stroke, Pierre Palmade was placed in pre-trial detention on Monday following the decision of the Court of Appeal. This Wednesday, his former producer Claude Fournier, who has known the artist for more than 30 years, was present on the set of TPMP. “I knew it wasn’t right“, recognized the producer, who is no longer in contact with Pierre Palmade, but who does not say he is surprised by what has happened. “I have tenderness for him, it can’t be taken away from me“, said Claude Fournier before confiding that he might no longer bear the media outburst around this affair, both for the family of the victims, but also for the repercussions on the state of health of Pierre Palmade, awaiting his trial. “I’m afraid he won’t be in the ring on match day (…) Let’s get him back in shape so that when the time comes he can be there to answer for his actions“, he indicated.
Himself a former addict, Claude Fournier then looked into the addiction of Pierre Palmade. “His life is shattered…What theater will engage him?“, he launched regarding the comedian, before declaring that the latter had started taking cocaine shortly before his 20th birthday.
Pierre Palmade: his beginnings with drugs
On the set, Claude Fournier then recounted the day he surprised Pierre Palmade for the first time. “It was at the Cannes Film Festival, we were eating with journalists, Pierre and other artists, and then I didn’t realize it because I talk a lot, and there is a journalist who said to me at one point: ‘Your artist often goes to the toilet!’. I went to see what was happening downstairs, the door was not closed…“, remembered Claude Fournier. Today, the producer only wants one thing: that Pierre Palmade”take control” et “assumes its responsibilities“.
