The news struck like a bombshell. Already recovered from heavy prostate cancer in 2018, Jean-Pierre Pernaut revealed that he was once again ill this Monday, November 22, 2021. The 71-year-old journalist is this time affected. lung cancer. Last July, he even had a successful operation on the right side, but unfortunately a month later he learned that it was the left side that was now affected and for which it was impossible to operate. It is therefore via radiotherapy that he is trying to fight the disease.
In this event, Jean-Pierre Pernaut is well surrounded by his family, namely their children Lou (18 years old) and Tom (17 years old) but also his wife Nathalie Marquay. Since yesterday, the latter is also responsible for giving its news, wanting to be rather reassuring and emphasizing its combative temperament. To accompany it at best, the former Miss France is even ready to make a decision of circumstance. “I’m ashamed to say it but I’m a smoker“, she confessed on the show Morandini Live on CNews this November 23. A bad habit that she still maintains today, but not for long. “I have everything on my shoulders … The children to deal with, the press too … We are always looking for excuses corn obviously I will stop for my children already“, she promised. Nathalie Marquay then admitted to having started smoking during her adolescence for “show off“in front of his comrades.”What bullshit !“, she regrets today.
The pretty brunette is obviously not the only one to have regrets. In a documentary soon to be broadcast on C8, Jean-Pierre Pernaut is sorry for not having quit smoking years ago. The former presenter of TF1 was notably advised by his brother François, a doctor who succumbed to liver cancer in 2016. “His brother yelled at him all the time“, said Nathalie Marquay to Jean-Marc Morandini. Jean-Pierre Pernaut nevertheless keeps hope and always ensures”see life on the bright side“.