It’s the sad anniversary of 10 years of his death. On August 23, 2012, Jean-Luc Delarue, a key figure in the French audiovisual landscape, died at the age of 48. A tragic disappearance following a cancer of the stomach and the peritoneum, which greatly affected the greatest number. Considered for a long time as the ideal son-in-law of the small screen, the host actually hid a very dark face. Obsessed with his image and his physique, he would have gone until his blood is washed awayas revealed in the book Jean-Luc Delarue the star who never loved himself not by Vincent Meslet.
“Jean-Luc becomes pro diets, detox cures where he says ‘lose his dirt’ and even goes so far as to have his blood washed awaycan we read in this book. He multiplies the stays in the clinic of Merano, in Italy“His body must indeed go on”to tell the legend of the ideal son-in-law“.”He has seen too many animators and actors lose their footing because they have not been able to control their bodies“, we also learn, as if to justify this obsession. He obliges himself to hours of daily sport, whether indoors, or in the Bois de Boulogne.
That day he tried to kill himself
But his addictions have almost cost him his life more than once. Like this day when he even attempted suicide in the car, while his girlfriend and brother were on board. The one who will later experience love with women like Elisabeth Bost, mother of her son Jean, Inès Sastre, or even his last wife Anissa, was then in a relationship with his first love, Elsa. “We’ll be better up there all together, right?“, he threw at her, watching her as he accelerated. The car smashed against a post on the exit ramp and after three rolls, the star host came out covered in blood. Drunk and under drug, he seemed to be uninterested in his passengers, and even accused his companion in his place when the police arrived on the scene. This terrible evening, he will even be stitched up raw he is so soaked in alcohol and drugs.