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- World-famous French singer Edith Piaf lived with chronic pain due in part to her crippling rheumatoid arthritis. Without many treatment options at the time, Piaf was prescribed and became addicted to painkillers. She also continued to self-medicate with alcohol. The toxic combination took a toll on her health and she died of liver failure in 1963.
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Jun 28, 2021 · Edith Piaf was plagued with arthritis, which began around the time of Marcel Cerdan's death. So by 1951, when she was in a car accident, she was already on a lot of prescription medication. She was driving with her new boyfriend, Andre Pousse, when he missed a turn, and they crashed with her breaking an arm and two ribs.
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- She Shared Her Name with A Tragic Hero
- She Was Abandoned
- Like Father, Like Daughter
- She Lived with Prostitutes
- She Couldn’T Say “No”
- She Went Blind
- She Experienced A Miracle
- She Took to The Street
- She Met A Long-Lost Relative
From the very beginning, Edith Piaf knew how to make a dramatic entrance. Although her birth certificate said she was born at the Hospital Tenon in Paris, she had a different story to tell. On December 19, 1915, Edith claimed that her mother—Annetta Maillard—never made it to the hospital. With a no-show ambulance, Maillard delivered her on the fron...
Piaf’s parents named her with courage in mind. Her name—Edith—comes from a British WWI nurse named Edith Cavell who risked her life for the sake of French troopers. After rescuing them from the Germans, Cavell faced a death sentence. They executed her only two months before Piaf’s birth. While both women led wildly different lives, they had many th...
Some say there’s no love as unconditional as a mother’s love for her child. That is, unless your mother is Edith Piaf’s. Sadly, Piaf’s mother wanted nothing to do with her and abandoned her at birth. For some of her childhood, she lived with her maternal grandmother, but in the end, she belonged to her father. And with WWI raging on, he had a diffi...
Piaf’s father—Louis Alphonse Gassion—was an acrobat with a theatrical past. He was a street performer hailing from Normandy, and as time would tell, these dramatic affinities one day blossomed in his own daughter. But in 1916, he had WWI to consider, and when he enlisted, he had no choice but to leave Piaf in the care of his mother—a woman with qui...
In Bernay, Normandy, Piaf’s grandmother welcomed the girl into her scandalous life. She ran a bordello—or what some called “a house of ill repute.” When Piaf's father went off to fight, he left his baby girl there. Some say it takes a village to raise a child, but it only took a house full of her grandmother’s “employees” to raise Edith. These resi...
With her turbulent romantic history, it’s no wonder Edith Piaf insists that her life growing up in the bordello influenced her weakness for men. For one, the importance of consent was woefully skewed for Piaf. She once reminisced, saying, “I thought when a boy called a girl, the girl would never refuse.” But as a child, Piaf’s physical illnesses fu...
During a chapter of her childhood, Edith Piaf couldn’t see at all. She suffered from keratitis—an inflammatory condition that affects the cornea of the eye. Her blindness woke pity in the hearts of her grandmother and the other girls. Together, they decided to pool money in an effort to find a cure for Piaf’s unfortunate condition. But sadly, the m...
The proposed cure for young Piaf’s blindness was…unconventional, to say the least. The money for Piaf’s eyes went toward a very special pilgrimage—a spiritual journey in the name of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. When Piaf’s eyesight saw considerable improvement, everyone around her believed that this healing was a downright miracle. With her sight grat...
At the age of 14, Edith Piaf was ready to start making some money. After returning from battle, her father went back to his acrobatic profession. Finally old enough to earn her keep, Piaf and her father began trudging the streets together, setting up shop on corners and performing for the everyday masses. Her songbird voice rang true through the ci...
Only a year into performing, Piaf met a very important person—her sister. Or to be more accurate, her half-sister, Simone “Momone” Berteaut. So little is known about Momone that some say that there’s a possibility that she wasn’t Piaf’s sister at all. Either way, they became soul sisters in the end. Momone joined Piaf on the street, and together, t...
Mar 11, 2024 · Discover the untold story of Edith Piaf's battle with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Explore the iconic singer's resilience and legacy amidst chronic illness.
Dec 17, 2015 · As what would have been Édith Piaf’s one hundredth birthday is celebrated find out how she rose from the depths of poverty to become one of France’s most famous singers. One hundred years ago, on 19 December 1915, one of France’s most famous singers was born in Belleville, a working-class district of Paris. The story goes that Édith ...
Apr 5, 2013 · In 1935 Louis Leplee discovered Edith singing on the streets. Owning a popular night club on Champs Elysees, Louis convinced the young and very nervous young girl to perform. Due to her stage fright and diminutive stature, it was Louis who gave her the name, La Mome Piaf or Little Sparrow. During her time under Leplee’s guidance, Edith’s ...
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Aug 20, 2023 · Rheumatoid arthritis: Edith Piaf suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, a disease that caused terrible pain in her joints and muscles. Doctors call it auto-immune because it looks like an infection and the patient’s immunity is overactive.
Jan 26, 2016 · Edith Piaf died on 10 October, aged just 48. December 2015 marked the centenary of Piaf’s birth, not her premature passing, but because the exact date of that birth was lost to the Paris streets ...
