This Wednesday, March 2, Jean-Pierre Pernaut died as announced by his family. A new shock that has upset millions of French people. Present for 33 years at the head of the 1 p.m. television news on TF1the journalist was very popular.
The husband of Nathalie Marquay Pernaut was fighting against the disease. Indeed, last summer he announced that he had lung cancer.
One of the couple’s relatives, Isabelle Morini-Bosc revealed on RTL the causes of his death.
“We had been dreading his departure for several days”explained the one who is a columnist on Touche Pas À Mon Poste, a program very popular with the father of Tom and Lou. “I don’t think his wife, Nathalie Marquay, will mind me reporting the conversation we had on Monday afternoon: she had been watching him day and night for three weeks at the Georges Pompidou Hospital where he had been hospitalized, not for his lung cancer, which he was apparently in the process of overcoming, but for a series of other health problems having successively declared themselves. February, an open heart operation from which he had recovered well before a sudden worsening of his general condition having forced him to fall asleep at the very beginning of the week. We hoped for a miracle, it did not take place.
She then came to the set of TPMP in the company of Thierry Moreau to reiterate his words, the sobs in his voice. “His kidneys no longer worked”she added. “He was put to sleep so he wouldn’t feel the pain”. And unfortunately, he is gone.
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