Jean-Pierre Pernaut was in the spotlight on C8, Thursday, December 9, 2021. The TNT channel broadcast the documentary Jean-Pierre Pernaut, the life after. The opportunity for the 71-year-old former presenter of the TF1 13H newscast and his wife Nathalie Marquay to confide in the lung cancer which has come into their lives without their asking. A disease that Miss France 1987 saw coming.
After defeating prostate cancer in 2018, it is against a tougher disease that Jean-Pierre Pernaut must currently fight. Last spring she was diagnosed with lung cancer. He was operated on in the greatest secrecy, under a false identity, in September. A lobe of the right lung was removed. But, while he thought he was cured, he then learned that the second lung was affected. Lou (soon 19 years old) and Tom (18 years old) dad therefore had to undergo radiotherapy, because it would be too dangerous for him to go back to the pool table once more. A treatment that leaves him with some after-effects.
Once again, he can count on the support of his wife. And, as in the past, she was the first to know that something was wrong. In his book I believe it released on September 16, at Guy Trédaniel Editeur, Nathalie Marquay talks about her gift. Since the age of 20, the beautiful brunette of 54 years has been having premonitory dreams. Dreams that have allowed him to save the life of his dear and tender on several occasions. Before being diagnosed with cancer, the former beauty queen had a bad feeling. One night she did indeed make a nightmare during which Jean-Pierre Pernaut “was in the car with Tom and the accident was very very violent“.” And suddenly, a truck arrives which hits the car. And I don’t see my son at all but I see Jean-Pierre and he was filled with soot“, she explained. She therefore urged her husband to consult and she did well.
In order to undergo the operation, Jean-Pierre Pernaut had to stop smoking after fifty years of smoking. From one day to the next, he therefore stopped everything, without difficulty. Then came the time to “the heavy operation which scares a little“As the presenter of the TF1 group confided. Fortunately, everything went well but, in Last August, Nathalie Marquay had another bad feeling. “I had a nightmare over falling autumn leaves. (…) Boom, autumn is coming and I am told that it is a little fat on the other side of the lungsnot“, she revealed. tumor is much larger, at 3.5 centimeters. “It would be too heavy for my health, we cannot do a second operation. So we started radiotherapy. It lasted a few weeks and, at the beginning of 2022, we will see if it had an effect or not.“, concluded Jean-Pierre Pernaut. This treatment, he will do until December. But he wants to wait until the following month to find out if it worked or not, not wishing to spoil his end of year celebrations.