On March 2, Jean-Pierre Pernaut breathed his last at the age of 71 after a long fight against illness. More than two months after his death, his relatives and admirers continue to salute his memory. This Thursday, May 19, 2022 for Gala, his widow Nathalie Marquay has agreed to lift the veil on his daily life. Supported by those around her, the ex-beauty queen is striving to move forward.
The happy mother of two children also gave herself over to the last moments of her husband… Hospitalized after a heavy intervention, his condition then deteriorated very quickly. “The doctors wanted to do a brain MRI to check if he was having a small stroke, the nurses asked me to go and rest that evening, I said ‘goodbye’ to him, without worrying anymore only that”, confessed Nathalie Marquay. “When the hospital called me in the evening to tell me they must have put him to sleep, I understood that it was over.”
“I spoke to him from morning to night…”
In the hospital, the ex-protégé of Geneviève de Fontenay did her best to entertain her husband. “It lasted five days, during which I made him listen to Piaf, Johnny, I spoke to him from morning to evening. And then he had a massive stroke on the left side.” said the former Miss France. “The whole family came, his first wife, Dominique, all the children, we had to resolve it. I held his hand until the end […]”.
As she pointed out, the famous presenter would be buried not far from Louveciennes where they lived for several years. Complementary and fusional, Nathalie Marquay and Jean-Pierre Pernaut have always ignored their age difference. “As you are 17 years older than me, I will put you in a nursing home when you are in a wheelchair. And when you’re gone, I can go see you every day at the cemetery here!”, had fun telling him the columnist of Cyril Hanouna. “We desacralized this subject a lot together. Death was not taboo between us, even if we hoped it would be as late as possible…”
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