A very moving testimony! Nathalie Marquay chose the 20 hours of TF1 this Thursday to pay tribute to her husband, who died on Wednesday, Jean-Pierre Pernaut. “He was always strong, he fought for his family. He wanted to not let go, ”she said, moved.
“A workaholic”
The widow of Jean-Pierre Pernaut then spoke of her husband’s passion for his profession. “He was a workaholic. He was always worried about the family of TF1. He always wanted it done right,” she explains.
Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut then confides that she would have liked him to stop working sooner, considering his prostate cancer as an alert, hoping to be able to take advantage of her husband and travel with him. “We were eager to be able to be together, to make an old couple like everyone else, but Jean-Pierre is not like everyone else”, she confides, in tears.
“He didn’t want to retire,” she continues. For him, it was vital TF1, his group of 13 hours, his friends, it was his oxygen, that’s why he had so much trouble getting off the hook. “And to add:” He asked for audiences every day (…) as if he was afraid of not succeeding. »
“Everyone will forget me”
Jean-Pierre Pernaut finally left the 13 hours from TF1 only on December 18, 2020. Nathalie Marquay remembered a specific moment: when she exchanged with Jean-Pierre Pernaut on the day of his death: “Do you realize the day you are going to die, darling? This is going to be boring for me to deal with. How am I going to manage? It’s gonna be awful! He replied: “Don’t worry, when I’m no longer at TF1, everyone will forget me”. There you go darling, if you hear me… People still love him, people are loyal, so I wanted to thank all of his audience, all of these people, for all of these messages of love, the flowers,” she said. ended in a sob.