Former Director of Sports at Canal+, Charles Biétry suffers from Charcot’s disease (or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a serious and disabling degenerative disorder which leads to progressive paralysis and whose outcome is unfortunately fatal. Interviewed on the show Seven to Eight broadcast on January 26, 2025, the former Canal + figure shared moments of her daily life with host Audrey Crespo-Mara.
“Charles Biétry confides, for the first time, about his fight against Charcot’s disease, an incurable illness which only leaves him ‘a few weeks or months to live’, he tells us.
A courageous and luminous testimony, an ode to life that he gives us at home, in the company of his wife, in Carnac”can we read in the caption of the TF1 publication.
A “unique” testimony produced thanks to Artificial Intelligence
In this testimony “unique, produced, for the first time, with the help of artificial intelligence“, the TV man will return to his fight as well as “the memories of a happy professional life, and his disappointed hopes on the end of life bill“(editor’s note: The National Assembly should resume discussion of the bill from January 27, 2025. This discussion was interrupted following the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9, 2024. A solemn vote on the text was scheduled for June 18).
Charles Biétry wishes to decide on his death
-Moreover, Charles Biétry intends to remain in control of his life but also of his death since he has decided on an “assisted suicide” in Switzerland.
“I managed to live well, I don’t want to die badly. Charcot’s disease has already deprived me of the use of my legs and of speech. Soon it will be breathing accompanied by suffering for me and mine. This law, a first step, can offer us freedom and dignity. THANKS”commented the 81-year-old former sports journalist, having great hope in the end-of-life law then under discussion in France.
He has difficulty speaking, etc.
Guest on the set of What an era! in November 2024, his friend Michel Denisot spoke of their very strong ties and also gave his news. “Charles, he’s a friend from before Canal + (…) He has difficulty speaking, etc., but we communicate a lot by text messages“, he said, before adding with a touch of mischief: “We make predictions on all the matches every time, and we have never won.”.
