Guest with Chantal Goya on the show Facing HanounaJean-Jacques Debout spoke about his fight against cancer, and the decisive role played by his wife.
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Nearly sixty years of marriage. The longevity of the couple formed by Chantal Goya and Jean-Jacques Debout is enough to make people envious. And the years that pass do not seem to have altered the affection and devotion they have towards each other, quite the contrary. This is evidenced by the anecdotes they told on the set of Facing Hanouna, Saturday April 27. The singer returned to a difficult episode in his life. In 2021, he revealed that he had prostate cancer. He then said in an interview with Gala to have “almost passed”and got away with it “in extremis”. A survival that he attributes largely to his wife.
Jean-Jacques Debout: “I don’t think I’ll be there.” without Chantal Goya
Asked by Cyril Hanouna what his life would be like without Chantal Goya, the singer immediately replied: “I don’t think I would be here today. About ten years ago, she really saved my life.” So remembering that he had this cancer, he explained that he “did not have the morale to take care of him”. It was Chantal Goya who “took everything in hand, she [l]’took to see the teachers’. Jean-Jacques Debout notably had to undergo radiation sessions at the Institut Curie. Not only did his wife take him there, but she also did everything to “make it a fairly light story”. The interpreter of Snipe thus told an astonishing anecdote.
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“She turned my cancer into a concert” : the astonishing idea of Chantal Goya
During the sessions, the medical staff placed headphones on Jean-Jacques Debout’s ears to make him listen to music. “He told me : ‘I can’t take it anymore, it’s always the same song‘”, said Chantal Goya. Mischievous, she decided to take advantage of the opportunity to promote her husband’s new albumwhich had just been released. “I asked if we couldn’t play the Jean-Jacques Debout record. Afterwards, people asked me for the record. I had it in my bag and I sold it. And in the evening, we were going to have a good meal !” she remembered. “She turned my cancer into a concert”quipped Jean-Jacques Debout.
Article written in collaboration with 6Médias.
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