On January 17, Françoise Hardy celebrates her 78th birthday, not on a guitar tune, but on a morose tune linked, alas, to the complications of her cancer.
On this occasion, her friend and ex-companion Jean-Marie Périer spoke in an Instagram post this Sunday January 16 to bring news to her fans, faced with the singer's media absence since her musical retirement announced there. two years old.
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It is under a photo bringing together the musician Alain Chamfort and the interpreter of
My friend the rose
, that Jean-Marie Périer gives news of the icon of the yé-yé era.
“For those who are worried about the fate of Françoise, let's say that she is fighting, that she is holding on as best as possible, and that she continues to write every day because that is what she prefers. and she does the best. She has always had my tenderness, now in addition, she has my admiration”
, he indulges in the description of this photo he took. Before confiding:
"We have in common not to be excited about birthdays, so tomorrow, I will just have a drink to his health, avoiding the banalities of use."
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If Françoise Hardy is inevitably linked to the name of Jacques Dutronc, her first love remains Jean-Marie Périer, photographer and son of Henri Salvador. The two shared four years together, from the year 1963 when they met until 1967, when Françoise Hardy met singer Jacques Dutronc, with whom she had a son, Thomas. Nevertheless, the photographer, famous for his collaboration on the program
Salut les buddies
, still maintains close ties with Françoise Hardy.
“She remains my best friend. It was she who introduced me to Dutronc, and I have always attached myself to the guys I was left behind for. There was neither jealousy nor bitterness”
, he told the newspaper
Le Temps
in 2020.
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Since the announcement of her pharyngeal cancer at the microphone of
RTL
radio in 2019, Françoise Hardy has been dealing with the symptoms of her treatments, which translate into "
everyday problems, serious discomfort linked to the after-effects of chemo and radiotherapy
” reported his son Thomas Dutronc to
Parisian,
in an interview published on November 21.
A state of health serious enough for him to have already had to silence rumors of his mother's death.
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Complications related to his pharynx tumor, discovered in 2017, manifest themselves daily.
“I can't swallow much anymore, and preparing the same food that I can swallow takes me more than five hours a day. I have nothing that works normally since these therapies and my nights are worse than my days. There is always worse than what we suffer ourselves, but it is not a consolation”
, she confided in the columns of
Current Woman
. But the symptoms don't stop there. She suffers
from "respiratory distress, coughing fits, obstructions and nasal hemorrhages which occur non-stop without warning
", explained the singer to
L'Obs
last May, confident that her left ear had gone deaf due to the numerous treatments she had undergone.
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"
Thanks to radiation and immunotherapy, I have become deaf in one ear and my head is dry - throat, nose, mouth - I will never be able to sing again
.
But that does not torment me
s”, she detailed.
Before expressing a regret:
“I will unfortunately not have the relief of knowing that I can be euthanized.
France is inhuman on this level.