A heartbreaking message for any child. This morning, Thomas Dutronc opened up about the state of health of his mother, the French singer-songwriter, actress and model Françoise Hardy. By attending as a guest the study of RTL to present his new album and the song Il n’est jamais trop tard (“It’s never too late”), the 50-year-old singer has spared no details: “My mother is in poor health and people know it,” he declared after listening to a fragment of So you are part of a voyage (“Since you’re going on a trip”), performed by his parents in 2000.
“It won’t get better with time, obviously. There is a lot of emotion. It won’t be there forever. But we talk, we see each other and we try to prepare ourselves psychologically for his departure.”, he continued.
live a nightmare
Françoise Hardy turned 80 last January. To the singer-songwriter, one of the best-known figures of the chanson French, she was diagnosed with pharyngeal cancer in 2019. Already in 2004 she had fought lymphoma. In his most recent interview, published in December 2023 in Paris Match, He said he was living a “nightmare” and wanted to leave “soon and quickly.”.
In his statements to RTL, Thomas Dutronc recalled other, happier memories of his childhood and his mother. In particular, he told how Françoise Hardy He used to hide records from his yeyé days out of shame and so that he wouldn’t listen to them.. “I’m lucky to have two legendary parents,” she admitted.
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