On October 6, relatives, friends and fans of Bernard Tapie bade farewell to the famous jack-of-all-trades of show business, who died on the 3rd following a long fight against cancer, during a great tribute mass in Paris. . Among them: Michel Drucker. The host has just revealed his last exchanges with the deceased.
It is near Yahoo, during an interview broadcast on November 29, that the star presenter of France 2 made confidences. He had been alerted by Sophie Tapie, Bernard’s daughter, that the end was imminent. Neither one nor two, the boss of Roll on Sunday then ran to Rue des Saint-Pères, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, to make a final visit to Nanar in his mansion. “There he was … a shadow (…) 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: ‘Do you remember when you introduced me’. He remembered that. And there, suddenly, we talked with Bernard for 20 minutes, after he dozed off … I knew I would never see him again. We talked about our memories. Because I have lots of memories with him.“
Michel Drucker, who recalled having met Bernard Tapie when they were in their twenties, also recalled specific details of his last meeting with the actor, politician and businessmen. “There were about five or six dogs in the room and there we felt that the animals had guessed that it was the end (…) There was his own dog, he had his dog’s paw in the room. hand, it was very moving“, he added.
After the great tribute mass, a popular moment broadcast on television, the relatives of Bernard Tapie then met for a similar event in Marseille at the Vélodrome and then for his funeral in the Phocaean city. Since then, the deceased has been buried in the cemetery of Mazargues.