Roger-Luc Chayer
An extremely controversial figure died on the morning of May 11 from AIDS. Bernard Lachance, who was known a few years ago as a singer, had become an important conspirator and negationist who saw in society in general enemies everywhere, particularly in the pharmaceutical sphere and in medicine.
His death, following complications related to AIDS, was confirmed on the Facebook account of his sister, Lise Lachance, who wrote: “I am informing you of the death, this morning, of my brother Bernard, who was going to be 47 years old in June. next. His denial of HIV led to his death. Not wanting to enrich Big Pharma, he invested thousands of dollars in full house natural products. How sad. RIP my brother. I love you. «
Many remember him when he managed to attract the attention of American animator Oprah Winfrey, in 2009, by renting a theater in Chicago to sell tickets for his first One-man-show himself. ! He was on the Oprah show by the way. However, in a video a few years later, Bernard Lachance confessed on his Youtube channel to having lied to Oprah and to the public, that he did not really sell the tickets himself on the sidewalk and that if he had cried while receiving the live visit from Gayle King, a friend of Oprah’s, not because he was moved by this recognition, but rather because he had just learned moments before he had been diagnosed with HIV .
More than three years ago, he announced, still on Youtube, that he had stopped taking his HIV drugs and his triple therapy, because he considered that HIV was a vast evil plan of the big pharmaceutical companies to do billions when, according to him, HIV resulted from the abuse of drugs and poppers. He even denied the existence of HIV, saying that no one could visually prove to him that the virus existed. He had written an open letter to his own treating physician, an HIV specialist, to reproach him for his denial of HIV.
According to those close to him, he had replaced his medication with many natural products that he believed to be more effective. He will have made a conspiratorial discourse to the point of death. Same thing with COVID. Bernard Lachance was an extremely troubled being and his theories raised many questions in the public not about the facts raised, but about his state of physical and mental health in general.
With a real musical talent and a unique voice, he will rather be remembered as someone who has hampered the understanding of HIV, its effects, the AIDS that follows if no treatment is given. given and on public opinion. Censored everywhere, his Facebook account was closed last year and even Denis Lévesque, on the airwaves of LCN, cut off the interview with Lachance, when he found out he wanted to talk about his conspiracy theories. He had once again lied to be invited to the show. A life of sadness and a free death just to have the last word. R.I.P. Bernard Lachance!