Another blow for the Pernaut clan. After defeating prostate cancer in 2018, it is against lung cancer that the 71-year-old former TF1 13H news presenter is now fighting. A subject that Jean-Pierre Pernaut mentioned during an interview for TV Mag, alongside his wife Nathalie Marquay.
“I’m fine. Finally, I go like all cancer patients who are treated and who follow a little heavy treatments“, first confided Jean-Pierre Pernaut. He first underwent an operation last September for one of his lungs, a hospitalization during which he used a false identity. “For now, we have operated on a first tumor at the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris, removing a lobe of the lung on the right“, he said. But, unfortunately, the ailment that is eating away at him has spread to the other lung and this time it is inoperable. He therefore undergoes radiotherapy in order to overcome the disease. A treatment that is not without consequences. “I had five radiotherapy sessions. It bursts because the rays create inflammation in the lung, which has made me cough for three months ! I will have the answer of my current treatment in mid-January. There is no reason to get depressed first. We’ll see after“, he continued with TV Mag.
In the rest of the interview, the dad of Lou (soon 19) and Tom (18) gave more details about his grueling radiation therapy. He explained that we were giving him “massive ray bombardment during several sessions“. If he does”feels absolutely nothing“while a robot walks above him for forty minutes, Jean-Pierre Pernaut feels exhausted. Fortunately, he can count on Nathalie Marquay to once again provide him with unwavering support. A disease that she knows well since she suffered from a devastating leukemia, diagnosed in 1997. And she got out of it, enough to give hope to her dear and tender.
Jean-Pierre Pernaut thinks of death
Despite everything, Jean-Pierre Pernaut does not hide that he sometimes thinks of the worst. “I know Jean-Pierre is thinking about it [ à la mort, NDLR]. Sometimes he says little sentences saying that he will have to think of such and such a thing if ever one day … I don’t want to hear it! Obviously, we all die one day, but it’s the better to be reborn“, confided Miss France 1987.”And Bernard Tapie said we were all going to die. The main thing is as late as possible“, added her husband.
This subject of death, Jean-Pierre Pernaut also mentioned during the filming of the documentary Jean-Pierre Pernaut, the life after, airs December 9 on C8. “Of course, when you’re in trouble, you think of the worst: ‘What if I don’t come back? What if by chance I slipped down a staircase in the hospital? ‘“, entrusted the president of the jury of Miss France 2022, not without humor, as revealed exclusively on the site Gala.