Anonymous people who have had a life-changing experience or stars with an exceptional trajectory. For several years, Audrey Crespo-Mara has focused, in the portrait of Seven to Eightbroadcast on TF1 every Sunday, to highlight the extraordinary journey of people who have something to say.
In 2022, just after he announced he had lung cancer, the 47-year-old journalist met Florent Pagny. Invited in C to you Friday June 15, she said more about these very intimate meetings during which the star of the song made shocking confidences to her.
“It was a shock”
Florent Pagny, his fight against cancer. It is this sober title that the journalist chose to give to the portrait she devoted to the artist. Between Paris, New York, and Patagonia, she followed him in his fight against cancer and his reconstruction. Unfortunately, the last episode of this reconstruction was not as imagined, since, while the doctors had believed in remission, a lymph node emerged, reducing the hopes of an immediate cure to nothing.
As told by Audrey Crespo-Mara in C to youbefore conducting the third and final interview in Patagonia intended to close the portrait for Seven to Eightshe had lunch with Azucena’s husband. “I had just arrived and it’s a bit far, so we took the time to relax a bit, and he didn’t tell me. He waited until we were filming to tell me and it was a shock. »
Audrey Crepso-Mara learned that Florent Pagny was sick again in front of the cameras
Faced with this terrible news, the TF1 journalist was logically stunned. “I was stunned”, she remembered. What surprised her even more? May Florent Pagny continue to ensure maintenance. “He could have said I’m going back to Paris, but he kept his word, he made us come”she noted, admiringly.
Under the cameras of TF1, the singer announced the bad news very calmly. “Since we saw each other, we have taken exams. (…) The news is not so good. (…) There is a node which has fixed, which means that there is a risk of metastasis”he announced with a smile and unfailing combativeness to Audrey Crepso-Mara, who, one imagines, was suffering behind the lens.
