William Sheller, singer, musician, songwriter, publishes his soberly titled autobiography William published by Des Équateurs. The 74-year-old artist tells about his life and the illness that struck him. In C to you, this Wednesday, March 24, he gave an astonishing anecdote about this …
William Sheller has just published his autobiography and was on March 24 the guest of C to you. Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine returned to an important evening in the singer’s life because it led him to make a heavy decision, that of completely renouncing music, to give everything up to his piano and his trophies. During the Victoires de la Musique 2016 the singer is honored for his forty year career. What the public does not know, is that the singer is sick, victim of burnout and cardiac arrhythmia. He doesn’t want to go to the party, distressed by the feeling of surrendering “at his funeral“. He explains that the disease then took possession of him:”It attacks the body outright, it attacks the heart, and then there are the treatments that are not suitable, it attacks the thyroid, the eyes, the head finally pffff and we swell because of the cortisone...”
William or Jean-Pierre?
The singer, who today displays an extremely slender figure, explains that he was unrecognizable to the point that one day he was mistaken for another celebrity. He says with humor: “In hospitals in general the corridors between the different departments are very long, good. I was like that bloated by cortisone and there was a nice nurse pushing me. And at one point he slowed down, and he said to me: ‘ Could I ask you something? ‘“” Well yes gladly, answers the interpreter ofA happy man. What do you want to know ?” “You wouldn’t be Jean-Pierre Coffe?“, then asks the caregiver. Under the effect of surprise, the chroniclers around the table C to you explode with laughter. William Sheller then reveals that he must have disappointed the nurse by undeceiving him: “No, he left us a few months ago “. “Yet what do you look like him …“, replied the caregiver. A resemblance that we would be hard pressed to find today …
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