Her complicated breakup with Patrick Sébastien… “Alcohol, medications, stomach washing”

It is on May 11 that we will know (finally) if Slimane, who represents France at Eurovision with his title My love, will postpone the major international singing competition. For now, the bookmakers are betting on a sixth position in the ranking for our French singer. An honorable place! It must be said that until now, the last French woman to have won the competition was Marie Myriam… 47 years ago! But did you know that the interpreter of The bird and the child had been in a relationship with Patrick Sébastien? On the set of Buzz TV of TV Magazineshe returned to this story and their stormy breakup.

Marie Myriam: her difficult breakup with Patrick Sébastien… He wanted to “shoot himself”

Marie Myriam enjoyed a two-year romance with Patrick Sébastien and got engaged to him in 1978. But their relationship ended when the singer discovered she had become pregnant. The host wanted to keep the future baby, she did not want to continue this pregnancy. Furthermore, the presenter’s fits of jealousy ended their love story.

Devastated by this separation, the interpreter of Sardines has “wanted to shoot“, as he confided in 2023 on the set of Do not touch My TV. “Fortunately I missed it because today, looking back, falling for someone is the worst thing to do. Look, I still have marks from the razor I used to cut my veins. Especially since this heartbreak is the ego speaking“, he detailed.

Have Marie Myriam and Patrick Sébastien kept in touch?

“Actually, he didn’t want to ‘shoot himself’ but he took alcohol and drugs, and unfortunately had to have his stomach pumped – which was a really difficult time for him. “, finally clarified Marie Myriam, now 66 years old, on the set of Buzz TVthis May 1st.

The breakup was therefore particularly painful, for both the host and the singer. But water flowed under the bridge and both managed to maintain friendly ties. “The years passed, he was with Nana (from whom he has been separated since 2022, editor’s note) who is an extraordinary woman, who supported him… And then we became friends afterwards, he was friends with Michel, my husband. And then there you go, we got along and we still get along well and that’s what counts“, she concluded.