It is a documentary that sheds light on the life of Jean-Luc Delarue. This Wednesday, August 24, TF1 broadcast Jean-Luc Delarue: 10 years already, of excess success, while it is the sad 10th anniversary of the death of the star host at the age of 48, from stomach cancer. In this film which reveals exclusive images of Jean-Luc Delarue and his son John, but also makes us hear sad episodes of his life, like the day he tried to commit suicide while driving, we also come back to the double cancer that got the better of him. In the end he was unrecognizable, “swollen with cortisone“. A “shock“ for his relatives.
“He was in pain, since if the drug had quite anesthetized his physical pain, when he stopped taking drugs, everything came back to the surface very quickly.“, we learn about the host. Stéphanie Guérin, who was the one who whispered in the earpiece of Jean-Luc Delarue, remembers the “shock“.”He summons us to the American hospital, I had not seen him for a few days and he was transformed, he was no longer the same man, he was swollen with cortisoneso it’s hard for us to see it like that, it’s a shockshe reports. As usual, he plays on the spectacular side of it all, on the ‘I’ll be fine guys, don’t worry, I’m a rock.’“
I have two cancers, you see that you have to be spectacular in life.
It is also behind this spectacular side that the host producer hid when he announced to Stéphanie his double cancer, via telephone. “He calls me in the morning he says to me ‘ah Stef, my stomach hurts too much, I think I have to go to the emergency room’, for Jean-Luc to go to the emergency room, it’s really thatwhat he had to doremembers Stéphanie Guérin. And I come back from Plaine-Saint-Denis one evening after the shoot, it must be 10 p.m. I’m in my taxi, he calls me and he says to me: ‘Stef, vital prognosis engaged, you know what it’s a cancer and I’m not talking about a cancer, I have two cancers, you see that you have to be spectacular in life‘. And then I remember, I actually want to cry, I want to cry because this guy, I’m very attached to him“, she says in this documentary.
This day when Marc-Olivier Fogiel almost did not recognize him
Marc-Olivier Fogiel also remembers the day he met him at the Dior show in January 2012. Jean-Luc Delarue, camouflaged under a hat and in the company of his last wife Anissa, was “unrecognizable“in his words.”He was unrecognizable and he saw that I was surprised, that I had almost recognized him. And he told me ‘eh yeah, that’s life‘”, said the general manager of BFM.