Life has not given Françoise Hardy a gift, particularly from a health point of view. The 78-year-old singer battled lymphatic cancer in 2015 before facing laryngeal cancer. The latter, rather virulent, gave a hard time to the interpreter of How to say goodbye to you. News from Françoise Hardy is now rare. The few pieces of information that fall are given by his relatives. The latest are signed Thomas, the son she had with Jacques Dutronc.
The 49-year-old author and composer, in the midst of promoting an album and touring with his father, mentioned his mother in the course of a question. And despite the encouraging results, the news is not as good as expected: “Her state of health is fragile. As a precaution, she preferred not to go out. […] She’s not in good shape, but she’s fine. Finally, it’s okay. No, his quality of life is really not terrible but his cancer is in remission“, he told the weekly. The disease therefore seems to be defeated, but Françoise Hardy still needs a little time to replenish her strength.
Last year, Françoise Hardy revealed that her fight against the disease had earned her several sessions of radiotherapy and immunotherapy, the side effects of which forced her to live “confined for 3 years” and the Covid-19 pandemic has nothing arranged for his loneliness: “For me, who has always been an anxious person, the pandemic has greatly increased my anxieties for the future of the world in general, that of those I love in particular.“
Due to her career and the tricks her health has played on her, Françoise Hardy has publicly come out in favor of euthanasia, she who feels “near the end“: “When someone is incurable, it is inhuman not to shorten his sufferingshe confided to France Info in 2021. Suffering from Charcot’s disease, my mother was very lucky that her doctor found her a hospital doctor who euthanized her with my collaboration when she could go no further in this horrible incurable disease. As for me, I would like to have this chance.”