Jean-Luc Delarue died on the night of Thursday to Friday August 24, 2012, almost 11 years ago. The famous animator and producer quickly became one of the key figures in the French audiovisual landscape. And the darling of the housewife, who considered him the ideal son-in-law. Yet behind the scenes of this success hide many flaws, stemming from a childhood without love, as he will confide in his Secret Notebooks, written shortly before his sad death from stomach and peritoneal cancer. One day he even attempted suicide in the car, while his girlfriend and brother were on board.
It’s in the book Jean-Luc Delarue the star who never loved himself no Vincent Meslet that we discover this sad anecdote. At the time, the one who would later find love with women like Elisabeth Bost, mother of her son Jean, Inès Sastre, or even his last wife Anissa, was in a relationship with his first love, a named Elsa. One night, around 3 o’clock in the morning, he returns home with his partner and his half-brother. He then drives his beautiful Safrane, bought by Reservoir Prod, and goes through the tracks on the banks. Under the influence of alcohol and drugs, the famous animator begins to increase the sound of the music – he then passes I dreamed of her again – and throws to Elsa: “We’ll be better up there all together, right?“He accelerates, everyone then starts shouting.
Covered in blood, he doesn’t apologize
The car ends up crashing against a post on the exit ramp, and rolls over three times. Jean-Luc Delarue comes out covered in blood, and does not apologize, as we can read. “Damn, I missed it all“, “damn i’m off the tv“, “damn i can’t take it anymore“, he grumbles, completely forgetting the existence of his companion and his brother. And when the police arrive at the scene of the accident, the face of It is discussed then claims that it was Elsa who was driving. But the presence of his blood on the side of the steering wheel quickly put an end to his false testimony and increased his sentence. Jean-Luc Delarue was urgently hospitalized that day and may even be stitched up raw he is so soaked in alcohol and drugs. He comes out with a scar on his right eye.