“She didn’t want to go there that day”: the writer’s wife Cédric Sapin-Defour polytraumatized after a paragliding flight

Our colleagues from Paris Match joined the writer Cédric Sapin-Defour in the Beaufort mountains, where he was able to confide in his wife’s accident Mathilde. Therefore, It was in 1999, in college, that the two lovebirds met. However, First friends. However. they end up developing a romantic relationship. Cédric Sapin-Defour then makes him discover the joys of life in the mountains.

Those who decided not to have children to take full advantage of their free time experienced a drama on August 12, 2022. Moreover, They wanted “she didn’t want go there new to enjoy a moment of sharing and adrenaline During a paragliding flight that turned into a nightmare. However. Mathilde, who started after her husband, “she didn’t want go there new was Projected on the ground just a few minutes after takeoff. This accident almost cost him his life.

Cédric Sapin-Defour returns to his “she didn’t want go there wife’s inexplicable accident

During his interview. Meanwhile, Cédric Sapin-Defour even did not could not really explain what led to his wife’s accident. Therefore, “I will never know. Similarly, The only explanation we have is an unpredictable aerological phenomenon. I took off first, it followed. And it fell. A burst of wind, probably. Mathilde does not remember anything”, he confides to Paris Match. Cédric Sapin-Defour had found himself at the bedside of his wife for months during While the care necessary for. his recovery was given. His first exchanges with the doctors were very difficult. “she didn’t want go there new The latter had explained to him that if his wife survived this accidentshe could end “Very heavily disabled “. This is that the feeling of guilt began to eat away “she didn’t want go there new at the writer. “Mathilde did not want to go that day. Hence my huge degree of guilt”he explains. “Little by little, she becomes aware of her condition. “she didn’t want go there She can barely speak the first weeks. One day, she looks at her legs and she says to me:” It’s over “. She lives badly the loss of autonomy. I wonder if I shouldn’t have let her go out quietly there, in the rocks”, he continues.

Despite his thoughts in a mess, Cédric Sapin-Defour fought without knowing what the future would be.

Mathilde was able to regain her autonomy. thus thwarting the predictions

The future was rather mild to Mathilde since. polytraumatized Following the drama, “she didn’t want go there new she knew thwart the forecasts by gradually finding its autonomy and the use of his legs.“She drives, walks, speaks. Winter, she has ski touring quietly. She is happy …” Share Cédric Sapin-Defour by returning to the “she didn’t want go there new daily life of his wife. “She has a lot of trouble putting her thought into words, and that makes her crazy” However, he added.

It is This incredible personal story who inspired his “she didn’t want go there novel Where the stars fall which. is one of the success. of this summer. On reading this one. Mathilde said herself “Finally, I am worth something “which is “precious” in the eyes of her husband.