New fight against disease for Jean-Pierre Pernaut. After defeating prostate cancer in 2018, it is against lung cancer that the 71-year-old former TF1 13H news presenter is fighting. In this battle, he can once again count on the unwavering support of his wife Nathalie Marquay. However, Miss France 1987 must face criticism.
On November 22, 2021, the mother of Lou (18 years old) and Tom (soon 17 years old) made the trip to the set of Do not touch My TV to reveal that Jean-Pierre Pernaut was fighting a new cancer. “It happened in July, he had bronchitis and I pushed him for an exam. We found out it was a tumor. He had an operation, everything went well but in September the other lung was attacked. It was a little bigger and we can’t operate again. We are with him and as they say, ‘never 2 without 3“, she had explained in particular. A coming which had not been seen with a good eye by all the televiewers of C8.
Some did not understand why it was not Jean-Pierre Pernaut who had faced Cyril Hanouna. Criticisms to which Nathalie Marquay wished to respond during an interview for Cine TV Review. “There are those who bluntly said that I spoke about her cancer in Do not touch My TV without my husband knowing. It makes no sense. Jean-Pierre was too tired to do the show. And he directly sent a video to give his news. But I’m used to taking it all in the face. I do not care. It’s just jealousy, meanness. And out of thousands of messages, I have ten that are barjos and all the others, positive“, explained the former beauty queen.
Nathalie Marquay prefers to focus on the most important: the health of her husband. Sometimes she feels like “find a child“who needs to be reassured.”I am a huge support for Jean-Pierre and living proof that despite the fact that I was condemned, I am still here“, concluded the mother who conquered a devastating leukemia, diagnosed in 1997.
Jean-Pierre Pernaut confided in the evil that gnaws at him in the edition of Paris Match December 2. The opportunity to discover that he was operated on under a false identity, as Michel Drucker had done during his heart problem. As his second lung was not operable, he had to undergo radiotherapy for a few weeks. On November 29, he revealed at Pascal Praud’s microphone, in his RTL Midi radio program, that for fifty years, he had smoked one to two packs a day. “I was stupid“, he regretted. After his disease was diagnosed, Lou Pernaut stopped his consumption of cigarettes. Nathalie Marquay has meanwhile promised to stop also.