It was a relief to learn last November that Françoise Hardy was out of her fight against the disease. His son Thomas Dutronc told the Sunday Journal that his days were “not in danger“: “She had cancer but there is no recurrence. She’s in remission“. These encouraging words hide a reality that is far from perfect. At 78, the singer is suffering from serious sequelae, the consequences of the treatments necessary in her fight against cancer. Jean-Marie Périer, photographer and great friend of Françoise Hardy, said indicated that the artist was not in great shape at all: “Everyone knows she’s not well, she’s in trouble… But she has incredible courage” he indicates. If he does not see her as often as he would like, it is only because the visits “tired her” and that “his schedule is very busy“. Françoise Hardy can certainly no longer sing but “she fights“to continue to exist in music:”She continues to write every day. She is really brave“.
The cure of his cancer did not solve everything, quite the contrary. Living off the hook of others and suffering the consequences of “45 chemotherapy sessions“, very little for her: “I have become deaf in one ear, have no more saliva, the nasal passages are no longer irrigated and my back throat either, with all the respiratory, hemorrhagic, food problems that this has caused permanently for two years.“Françoise Hardy has lived in reclusion since the start of the pandemic, she who cannot be vaccinated against Covid-19 due to a lack of lymphocytes which would prevent the serum from being really effective.
Tired of this lifebecome a nightmare“in her own words, Françoise Hardy would like to be able to choose when she leaves. In April 2021, she indicated to France info : “I would like to have this chance but given my small notoriety, no one will want to run even more the risk of being struck off the order of doctors“. The firm position of the government on the issue had even outraged her: “When someone is incurable, it is inhuman not to shorten his suffering“. Yet this is how the singer would like to say goodbye to her fans…