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.

➡️ Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut (@nmarquaypernaut) tells us about Jean-Pierre Pernaut.



🗣️ "We couldn't wait to be together, to make an old couple."



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“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

1 p.m.

group , his friends, it was his oxygen, that's why he had so much trouble picking up.

“And to add:” He asked for audiences every day (…) as if he was afraid of not succeeding.

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"Everyone will forget me"

Jean-Pierre Pernaut did not finally leave

13 hours

of TF1 until December 18, 2020. Nathalie Marquay remembered a specific moment: when she exchanged with Jean-Pierre Pernaut on the day of his death: "You 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.

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