Adored of some, misunderstood by the others, Philippe Katerine leaves no one indifferent. But the singer and actor almost never made a career because, younger, he had a serious problem in the heart.
Philippe Katerine, his real name Philippe Blanchard, is what is called a survivor. The 56 -year -old artist, who offered himself a global buzz last summer at the Paris Olympic Games, has indeed survived a cardiac malformation that could have cost him his life.
“It was a total rebirth” : the operation that changed the life of Philippe Katerine
It’s in Gala that the interpreter of Louxor I love recently returned to this traumatic episode. Affected by a malformation in the heart, discovered at the age of 8, the young Philippe Katerine had “A small accident” As he likes to say. “I had in my heart a hole as big as a piece of five francs, as they said at the time. They operated me, but I shouldn’t be there”he said. And Julie Depardieu’s husband to tell: “When I woke up, I needed to go and go back. I turned all the land from the garden. It was a total rebirth. This is where my life changed”.
An episode that the actor of Big bath had also told journalists of Papotin in 2024: “My heart, he stopped beating, he appeared for 17 minutes but I was asleep and it was relayed by an engine”. And it is up to him, as usual: “What I could say is that when I’m late, I’m still 17 minutes late today. It’s like I was still 17 minutes late in my life. It was very weird when I saw that”.
Philippe Katerine ironed on billiards: “My blood was downright infected“”
So questioned about the underside of the operation, the dad of Billy and Alfred had confided not “Too much remember to the operation”. “I especially remember the awakening where I was three days in vapes (…) things that looked a little like death. Finally, I understood that like that. It was very beautiful, with lots of colors. It was like multicolored cushions and that you could bounce back into it and feel really good in it.”
Recently, whoever lives with his wife Julie Depardieu in a house in Bougival once again had to go to the hospital … urgently! This time, for kidney stones. “I was on the billiards, because I had kidney stones. In fact, my blood was downright infected, so I was going to go through the big white country, completely”he confessed on the set of Click. Now everything is fine for him.
