Jean-Pierre Pernaut breathed his last on March 2, 2022 at the age of 71 following lung cancer. More than two months after the journalist’s disappearance, Nathalie Marquay was Cyril Hanouna’s guest in “Touche pas à mon poste” on May 17. The wife of the former star of the 1 p.m. news from TF1 came out of silence and shared poignant secrets since the death of her husband.
The former miss France notably confided that she had already felt for a while that Jean-Pierre Pernaut was not going to celebrate his 72 years. “Presentiments, people will tell me I’m crazy, but I knew he wouldn’t live past his 72s. I told my best friend, my daughter’s boyfriend. More than ten years ago, I said ‘I’m very scared because I don’t see Jean-Pierre celebrating his 72nd birthday. It’s not a flash, it’s an inside thing. It’s visceral. It’s as if someone is talking to me when no one is talking to me: ’72 years is going to be complicated'”she confided.
Invited on Saturday June 11 on the airwaves of RTL in “Le Grand Studio”, the one who was elected Miss France in 1987 returned to their first romantic dinner: “It’s very simple, when he invited me to the restaurant for the first time, it was at the Eiffel Tower. I knew he was the man of my life so I do not go through four paths“, she reported.
Just rid of leukemia, Nathalie Marquay had played cards on the tables, even if it meant that her dear and tender turned upside down and considered this an ultimatum. “I mustn’t waste time, I want to have children. As I am already of a certain age, we must not waste time. (…) If I was able to talk to him like that, it’s because I felt there was a spark between the two of us, and that I really had no time to lose. Neither did he, since he was already 51 years old. If he didn’t want to, we had to stop. Me, I was not there to play the cheerleader. I was there to be next to him and be his wife.” she asserted. The rest, we know it…