Michel Fugain: “Lying on her side…”, these heartbreaking details about the painful death of his daughter Laurette

Thursday, January 16, 2025, Michel Fugain éwas David Barbet's guest on the show Censuré, on Télépro. The opportunity for the singer to make heartbreaking confidences on the death of his daughter, Laurette, who died from leukemia at 22 years old.

© BestImage Michel Fugain lost his daughter, Laurette.

IN BRIEF

• On May 18, 2002, Michel Fugain lost his daughter Laurette, aged 22, to leukemia.
• In the show Censuré, Michel Fugain expressed his pain by describing Laurette as “a jewel gone” and shared his grief over her disappearance.
• Despite the tragedy, Michel Fugain continues to live intensely, dedicating every moment to his missing daughter.

A tragedy that no parent should have to face in their life… On Saturday, May 18, 2002, Michel Fugain lost one of his daughters, Laurette. A year after being diagnosed with leukemia, Sophie and Marie's younger sister died at following complications during a bone marrow transplant, at the age of 22. Whenever he can, the singer evokes the memory of his daughter.

On Thursday, January 16, 2025, in the show Censuré, on Télépro, the artist assured that Laurette had been “a jewel flown away, a bird of the islands”. “She was a little marvel. She had two overlapping chromosomes. I wished her death a lot, I felt like she was wrong. I saw her suffer so much, she was very sedated. She knew she wasn't going to reach 23. She was lying on her side, there were tears flowing without a sound, they were the worst. My poor thing, my little one, my love… she is no more là”, he declared.

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Michel Fugain: “She had only one desire, it was to live”

Saturday, November 9, 2024, in the show On refait la télé, on RTL, it was then that Eric Dussart asked him if he sang for his missing daughter that Michel Fugain had released : “Oh, my sweetheart! She's part of it all. 'So, I sing tears and smiles', well yes”, before slipping émotionally: “It's always a little difficult, because she was 22 years old and she only had one desire, it was to live”.

Two months after the death of his daughter, the singer saw destiny put on his path the one who would become his companion. “There, I thought it was a sign, something of destiny.There is a soul that leaves and I meet another soul. I was first friends with Sanda, then one day, we fell in love, “he confided with a smile”.

Michel Fugain: “It's not easy”

Wednesday, November 30, 2022, in the columns of Soir Mag, it is then that it is extremely difficult to recover from a tragedy like this that the singer had felt that his profession had saved his life. “There is this proverb that says 'The show must go on'. I always have it somewhere in my head. When my daughter died, left us, flew away, I was on stage less than a week later. And there, you have to sing 'C'est la fête' because people are waiting for it. It's not easy. Ça requires forgetting yourself, at least for a moment”, he had analyzed.

In the book En confidence, published in September 2018, he had also shared: “What has passed, we cannot change. So we might as well move on. Çit may seem a little cold and heartless when it comes to the loss of a child, but I say every day to my daughter in my head: 'Everything I live there, I offer to you. What I live there, I live in your place'. And I think that's what we owe to a loved one we have lost: to live fully for him or her. Life doesn't stop. On the contrary”.