As we learned during an interview with Sophie Of the Rock on Sunday night, Éric Lapointe was placed in an induced coma at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital in 2009 after attempting to wean himself from it.
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“I fell into a coma, they took me out of the coma and put me back in a coma for fear of psychosis,” the singer said during his interview with the columnist. The rocker collapsed at home after trying to stop drinking and exercise on his own.
“I'm lucky I had someone with me who called the ambulance,” he admitted. The Mon Ange singer was hospitalized for a month after this incident.
At the hospital, his agent did everything he could to protect his client's dignity. However, he took a photo of him bedridden and intubated to shake him up.
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“I asked him to give me a copy. “I wanted to display it in the bathroom of my room to remind me of it every morning… as if it would motivate me to get through the day without drinking,” the then 54-year-old singer said after that episode, convinced that he would never drink another drop would drink alcohol.
“Alcohol is definitely the fight of my life,” he admitted, confessing that he drank his first drops around the age of 12 to 13.
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“I have an unfortunate predisposition to dependency on alcohol, medication, drugs… I am emotionally dependent, adrenaline addicted, stage addicted, addicted…,” he then told his interlocutor.
The latter also says that he hit rock bottom during the COVID-19 lockdown, during which he mistakenly “slept” his emotions, but that his sons' pride in seeing him sober gives him the courage to persevere.