The documentary Jean-Luc Delarue: 10 years already, of excess success, broadcast this Wednesday, August 24 on TF1, offers a return to the life, not without gray areas, of Jean-Luc Delarue. It has been ten years since the animator-producer died at the age of 48, from stomach cancer. In the documentary, we also discover images with his son John, now 15 years old, the fruit of his love affair with Elisabeth Bost. A little boy who was everything to him, as reported in particular by the mother of Jean-Luc Delarue, facing the camera.
“This union, they got along really well, she relates about the couple formed by her son and the ex-columnist of C8. The day he meets Elisabeth, and he tells me that she is the most important woman in his life, I tell him yes that I love her very much too. He tells me I think I’ve found the right mom, I tell him yes yes she’s great, etc. It was a very big decision for him to have a child, I think it disturbs him beyond anything you can imagine..”
Nothing is good enough for Jean
On October 21, 2006, his son Jean Delarue-Bost was born. We can then see in this complete documentary exclusive images of the little boy. Snapshots of him as a baby, in the arms of his parents, but also a little later, glued to his illustrious father. The little boy who seems to have his mother’s eyes then spends most of his time with Jean-Luc Delarue. “He thinks he must be a perfect father, that he won’t be able to give him everything he wants to give him, he blames himself, he lives at 150 an hour, he takes him to the Louvre, he takes him everywhere, nothing is good enough for Jean“, says the mother of the deceased.
Jean-Luc Delarue in the pool with his son Jean
Then, it is Jean-Luc Delarue, in person, that we hear about his son, “the upheaval of his life“.”On Saturday morning, when I go to pick him up, it’s straight to the swimming pool, we both stick togetherit’s all day together until the evening and I can tell you that now what dad shows him is that when there is a problem we can always get out of it, explains the host of It is discussed. We can always find the strength to get by, you can say what you want to children, what matters most is what you show them.“We then see beautiful images of Jean-Luc Delarue swimming with his son in their swimming pool. Jean is a little boy who was born from a real desire and who obviously lacked nothing.