On June 11, Françoise Hardy died at the age of 80. It was his son Thomas Dutronc who announced the sad news on his Instagram account. “Mom is gone…”the singer wrote. The artist had suffered from cancer of the lymphatic system before suffering a relapse with, this time, his pharynx affected. “Since my 45 radiotherapies, the definitive absence of saliva and the lack of irrigation of the skull and the entire ENT area have made my nightmare life“she confided in July 2022. And added: “My life has become so difficult that I sometimes wish I could leave in my sleep and not wake up.”. On RTL, Thomas Dutronc spoke, moved by his mother's state of health before her death. “There, things are not getting better over time (…) We are trying to prepare for his departure psychologically”he even declared.
During a concert given on June 13, two days after the death of his mother, Jacques Dutronc's son declared on stage: “There is a lot of emotion among us (…) JI tried to sing two of my mom's songs, but my throat is tight. “In England, we say 'elephant in the room'. We can't translate it into French but for me, my 'elephant in the room', it's my mother's departure to other skies”he concluded. Guest Sunday, November 24 of the podcast “In the retro” on France Bleu, the one who returns with an album entitled “It’s never too late”spoke about the pain of losing his mother. “It’s a bit cataclysmic to lose your mother when you are a son. Throughout my early childhood, she was really very, very close to me… We shared so many moments.” he began by explaining. Then continue: “I have his laughter resonating within me. All his kindness towards me, his concern… All that means that when we say: 'She's still here', 'You can still talk to her', it's not true”.
Does Thomas Dutronc feel the presence of Françoise Hardy?
“Unfortunately, she is no longer here. I can't talk to a wall because his reactions, his answers were unexpected”he said. And Deborah Grunwald asks him if he doesn't have the feeling that she “day before” on him today. Faced with such a question, Thomas Dutronc preferred to play the frank card. “Yes, that's what everyone gave me as advice, but my grandfather one day, I had an emotion… I thought of him, he was gone, he was someone one that I loved very much and one day I think of him and I cry”the singer then remembered.
Then continue: “I never cried, it never happened to me. The next day, I go to the beach where I always go in Corsica and there is a dolphin 30 meters away and I see it jumping in the air. Obviously, a mathematician will say the probabilities that there are events like that, which we relate ourselves, in any case to see this dolphin emerge, it was a call to the great mystery of existence. It comforted me.”
