It is with great sadness that people who are used to being in front of their screens at 1 p.m. learned the news on November 22. Date on which the former presenter of TF1, Jean-Pierre Pernaut, announced that he had lung cancer. A new fight that he must lead after the one won against his prostate cancer in 2018. Every day, Nathalie Marquay’s companion gives his news and tries to reassure those who support him from a distance.
However, he recognizes that certain moments of everyday life are difficult to bear. In particular the fact that he has had more and more difficulty moving for some time, as he confided to our colleagues from Paris Match : “Last week I was still exhausted. For a month and a half, my form has not been dazzling; I can neither walk for a long time nor stand for a long time ”. Despite this exhaustion, the journalist does not lose morale and never ceases to reassure those who support him from a distance: “But things are getting better and better”.
A few hours ago, when he was a guest in the Buzz tv of Figaro, he was giving his news once again. By taking the opportunity to talk about a sequel to her radiotherapy which is ruining her life even more than it already is: ” I’m fine ! At last, I go like all cancer patients who take care of themselves and follow treatments which are sometimes a little heavy “, he confided. “The, I had shock radiation therapy. These are the new radiotherapies with 4 or 5 sessions, before it was 40 or 50. It bursts, it creates inflammation in the lung, it has made me cough for three months. When I’m on the air it’s funny, I don’t cough! “
Perhaps an unexpected return to the air of TF1 could do him the greatest good …