It was already five years ago… On April 24, 2019, Jean-Pierre Marielle, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was
died at the Quatre Villes hospital, in Saint-Cloud, following septicemia. If the disappearance of the actor deeply affected his fans, certain personalities were also upset by his death. Monday December 9, 2024, on the set of the show Chez Jordan, on C8, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, who was close to him, spoke with emotion about his end of life.
“He no longer knew who he was. He didn't know he was Jean-Pierre Marielle. Oh no, it's horrible! Total Alzheimer's. And his friends were all there for him, that I can tell you! I wasn't close enough, but it was very hard.
He no longer knew he was Marielle! Worse than Girardot!”he declared before specifying:
“Physically, he had lost a lot of weight”.
Agathe Natanson: “He never wanted to talk about it”
Married to the actor from 2003 until his death, his widow, Agathe Natanson, spoke in March 2024 in the columns of Télé Star. Assuring that her first absences were felt in 1999, she remembered. “It is also possible that he had a stroke after a fall in the theater where we were rehearsing. And that the shock erased all the memory of the text.
Saying when it all started is complicatedbecause we carry this disease within ourselves for years without knowing it”.
If she knew this since her mother had been a victim, it was all very difficult to deal with. “He never wanted to talk about it and we lived this period in a kind of denial”she assured. Present for her husband until the end, Agathe Natanson added: “I accompanied him on the shoots and whispered his lines into his ear.
Having me face to face with him, as his ultimate reference, he who was losing his loved ones, reassured him and allowed him to live almost normally”.
Agathe Natanson: “We moved into something deeper”
Moved, the actor's widow then explained about the illness: “For years, we experienced this Alzheimer's disease like a light rain. And then, it turned into a storm the day he broke the neck of his femur in his garage. He had surgery and the general anesthesia he underwent weakened his condition in a formidable way. We moved into something deeper and, for his last year, it was no longer possible for him to stay at home“.
Wednesday February 1, 2023, on the set of It begins today, on France 2, Agathe Natanson assured that she was sad to live without the man she loves. “You should have died when he died, but I'm not dead, I have a family, I have children. Living without him is sad. I am an amputee. Don't you see that I have one leg and one arm missing? You just don't see it, but I'm an amputee. Whatever happens, I will be an amputee for the rest of my life.”she assured Faustine Bollaert.
