Last Sunday October 3, Bernard Tapie died, after years of fighting cancer. A disease that he had revealed in September 2017. Since then, his state of health has deteriorated sharply and the disease has spread throughout the body from the esophagus to the stomach, passing through the lungs and the brain.
A disappearance that plunged millions of French people into deep sorrow. Many tributes have been paid all over France, especially in Marseille, the adopted city of this Parisian by birth. During a mass organized in Paris, at the Saint-Germain des Prés church, several personalities were present for a final “goodbye to the Boss”. Among them, Michel Drucker!
The host gave an interview to Yahoo, Monday, November 29, in which he recounted his last exchange with the former businessman, whom he met when he was only 20 years old. A final face-to-face meeting allowed thanks to Sophie Tapie who had “phoned four days before” the death of the emblematic ex-president of Olympique de Marseille.
“Come quickly because it’s the end”, she had told him. “There he was … A shadow … He had emaciated skin and bones”, he remembered adding that the room where he was gathered “five or six dogs”. “We felt that the animals had guessed that it was the end. They were all around”, continued the one who presents Roll on Sunday on France 2 indicating that Bernard Tapie was “his dog’s paw in his hand”.
“With all that remained of his voice, he rightly mentioned, although we had never spoken of it for almost 60 years, he said to me: ‘You remember when you introduced me’. He remembered that “. A final 20-minute discussion before the ex-politician closes his eyes. “I knew I would never see him again”.
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