The singer was moved at the microphone of RTL when he gave news of the interpreter of Le Temps de l’amour, suffering from laryngeal cancer.
He is a double heir. Son of Jacques Dutronc and Françoise Hardy, Thomas Dutronc also became a musician. After ten years of absence, he offers a new song, entitled It’s never too late. “I’m lucky to have two legendary parents”assures Thomas Dutronc this Saturday June 1 in “Le Journal Inattendu”.
Indeed, Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc are an iconic couple on the French music scene. Married in 1981, fourteen years after the start of their love story, they separated in 1987, but still remain married to this day. “I didn’t get married to get divorced,” had underlined the interpreter of I like girls last year in “Seven to Eight”.
My mother has poor health, people know about it.
Thomas Dutronc on RTL
When journalist Steven Bellery goes on air Since you are going on a tripsung as a duet by his two parents, emotion overcomes Thomas Dutronc. “My mother has poor health, people know about it. She is not in very good health at the moment. This is not going to get better with time, obviously”, he confides on RTL. “So it’s a lot of emotions, she’s not going to be there all the time… But there you go, we talk to each other, we see each other. We are trying to prepare ourselves for his departure, psychologically”continues the singer behind his tinted glasses.
Suffering from cancer
Françoise Hardy suffers from pharyngeal cancer. In December 2023, she declared that she was experiencing “nightmare” and want “leave soon and quickly”. In a letter published by La Tribune Sunday , the singer questioned Emmanuel Macron on the debate on the end of life. She asked the President of the Republic to “allow French people who are very ill and without hope of getting better to stop their suffering when they know that there is no longer any relief possible”.
