Pascal Bataille announced that he was suffering from lung cancer in early December. First in a video on his social networks, then on the set of It starts today. The host of Only the truth counts revealed this Monday, January 6, the reaction of his loved ones to the announcement of his illness.
In this first week of January 2025, the hosts never stop sending their good wishes – like the English royal family – to the viewers of their shows. This Monday, January 6, it was the turn of Jordan de Luxe, after a few days of absence from the air, to return with a new issue of At Jordan’s on C8. His first guest of the year, Pascal Bataille, agreed to come and answer his intrusive questions, about his wallet and his health, and this, for one main reason that he recalled several times. In fact, suffering from lung cancer for several months, the host of Only the truth counts – who officially announced it at the beginning of December on his social networks before testifying in It starts today – wanted to encourage viewers to make donations for research, in particular that which fights Charcot’s disease for which, unlike a large number of cancers, there is no curative treatment and which one of his relatives friends is affected. On this occasion, Laurent Fontaine’s sidekick still returned to his own illness and the announcement to his loved ones, in particular to his mother.
“I spared her as long as possible“: Pascal Bataille talks about announcing his cancer to his 89-year-old mother
“I spared my little mother as long as possible. She was the last one I told it to. There you go, my rock’n’roll mom“, explained Pascal Bataille when he saw the photo of his 89-year-old mother displayed on the set’s screens. “She wears like a charm and hopefully it lasts. But she’s the one I told it to last, I told her just the day before I went to Faustine Bollaert and the show aired because obviously she was going to find out.“, he continued before justifying himself and revealing how Roselyne had taken the news: “She reacted much better than I expected; with a lot more positivity and hope. I was afraid that she too, she has a bit of an anxious temperament, she’s a mother and she’s not very young anymore, so I wanted to protect her from that, there was no point in her making herself feel bad. worry, it would not have helped my recovery. And she finally took it with great confidence; she told me ‘You’re a fighter, you’re going to win this.’ “
Pascal Bataille evokes the “double punishment” of his children whose two parents experienced cancer
“The children also reacted very positively“, continued Pascal Bataille. “You know about the last two, who are the children of Adra, It’s a bit of a double whammy because Mom plus Dad ; double cancer in five years, statistically it’s not that common. But in this case, they are around me. They saw their mom heal and they hope it will be the same for their dad“, concluded the host of Only the truth counts who revealed that he was going to have a major operation in a few days.
