For many years, Françoise Hardy has been fighting against the disease. Victim of lymphatic cancer, then cancer of the pharynx, the 78-year-old singer has been living in confinement for more than three years. This Sunday, the still very popular artist – she entered the TOP 50 for the first time JDD of the favorite personalities of the French last December – gives a new interview to the Sunday newspaper.
During this interview, Françoise Hardy talks about her health and the news is unfortunately still not very good. Worse, the mother of Thomas Dutronc lives a real nightmare that she evokes very frankly and in detail. “Since my 45 radiotherapies, the definitive absence of saliva and the lack of irrigation of the skull and the entire ENT area have made my life nightmarish. I spend at least five hours a day eating and am always at risk of nosebleeds because my nostrils are too dry and clogged despite the oil I coat them with several times a day. A recent hemorrhage has made my back throat even more parched, causing me coughing and choking attacks.“, confides Françoise Hardy.
That doesn’t stop me from being afraid to die
This situation inevitably leads to the one to whom we owe many hits, including All the boys and girls, How to say goodbye to you or So many beautiful things to think about death. “I have long thought that death is only that of the body which belongs to the material world but not of the spirit (of the soul) that physical death frees and which is of another essence. That doesn’t stop me from being afraid to die“, admits the singer who campaigns for the right to euthanasia in France. “Not from death itself but from the terrible pain of separation from my dearest loved ones and the physical suffering that dying most often entails“, explains Françoise Hardy.
Every moment she spends with her son Thomas – currently on tour with her dad Jacques Dutronc – Françoise Hardy appreciates them. Of Jacques, from whom she has long been separated but still not divorced (they married in 1981), she says that he “will have been the man of her [ma] life”. “The feelings we have for each other today go beyond just friendship.“, she confides. But in all this physical suffering caused by the disease, Françoise Hardy has only one wish: “I would like sometimes to go away in my sleep and not wake up.“
The full interview with Françoise Hardy can be found in the July 3, 2022 issue of Sunday newspaper.