Usually very discreet,
Dominique Tapie
has been touring television sets for a few days on the occasion of the release of
Bernard, the fury of living
(L'Observatoire).
Indeed, a year and a half after the death of
Bernard Tapie
, who died on October 3, 2021 at the age of 78 following cancer, his widow chose to look back on her 52 years of life with the man of 'business.
Thus, on Sunday evening, thirty-three years after her first and only appearance on television, she confided in Audrey Crespo-Mara as part of the “Portrait of the week” of “Seven to eight” on TF1.
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Visibly satisfied with the exercise, Dominique Tapie also accepted the invitation of "C to you" on France 5. Wednesday evening, she spoke at length about her memories with Bernard Tapie.
In particular, she returned to the last moments of her life.
According to her, her husband asked her to die with him.
"I tell him I'm sorry, but I'm not ready to leave
," she replied.
“He left like that”
Dominique Tapie about her husband Bernard Tapie
On Bernard Tapie's last day of life, she was by his side.
"I didn't leave him at all.
He couldn't stand... We didn't have a nurse or an assistant who could have stayed apart the last night because Professor Spano
[oncologist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, NDR]
had probably anticipated here it is... And I, I was in total denial, I said to him:
“You know, there's no need to put this nurse on me because at night, for two or three days, he don't wake me up again”
.
I was exhausted". He said to me:
"No, it's better, she stays next door"
,
said Dominique Tapie.
If she was present until the end, she regrets however not having been woken up when Bernard Tapie left.
“I was there yes.
Unfortunately, I wasn't there, well I was there, but I was asleep, so tired.
I did not have his last breath, I would have liked to take him in my arms, but he left like that”
, lamented Dominique Tapie moved.
