While father and son embarked on a long tour featuring all of Jacques’ great hits, culminating in their concert at the Accor Arena in Paris on December 21, the duettists made a stopover this Sunday in the studios of the program “7 à 8” presented by Roselmack on TF1. The opportunity to carry out a rare interview with two voices, in which the devastating humor of Jacques Dutronc, as always, worked wonders. But the laughter stopped at some point, when the father and son mentioned the great absentee from this family reunion: François Hardy, mother of Thomas and wife of Jacques.
“This show, we did it for her. »
The artist does not hide it: suffering from cancer of the larynx, she is going through a real ordeal, in her own words, and is no longer in a condition to move. And when the journalist asked Thomas if, as he approached fifty, he was not thinking of making the most of the good times spent with his parents, the singer replied in the affirmative, before adding in the wake “We try, but it’s difficult with mum. She’s not well, so much so that she hasn’t been able to come see us on stage until now. And I don’t think she will ever be able to. A very long silence suddenly falls. Suddenly the features of Jacques, the eternal joker, tense. “It’s really a shame, he continues in a broken voice. Because this show is also for her that we did it. We thought it would make her happy. “Thomas tries to maintain a glimmer of hope: “Fortunately, there are people who are filming us. We send him the videos on YouTube. I know she watches them. But the shadow of the absent woman covers the whole room with a veil of sadness. No one knows if Françoise, who undoubtedly watched the two men in her life on television, felt comfort in seeing them as accomplices. In any case, she now knows how much they constantly think of her and will continue to love her until her last breath…
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