Currently officiating on the antennas of franceinfo and La chain l’Equipe, journalist Laurie Delhostal revealed that she had cancer on Monday November 28, 2022, through a long message published on Instagram.
Former emblematic face of the Canal+ sports department, journalist Laurie Delhostal left the encrypted channel in 2021, after a decade spent covering various sports on the Canal+ group. From now on, the presenter acts as a columnist on La Chaîne l’Equipe, but also as a host on the Amazon Prime Video platform, which holds the broadcasting rights for the French football championship. In addition to his television career, Laurie Delhostal also got into radio, since she joined the antenna of the public station franceinfo. Unaccustomed to pouring out his personal life, the one who shares the life of former rugby player Pierre Rabadan made a shock announcement Monday, November 28, 2022 on his Instagram account.
That day, Laurie Delhostal revealed to Internet users that she was suffering from cancer. “Just a month ago I was told: ‘You have cancer’. Bam. It was necessary ‘do it quickly, because you have a young child’. ‘The total’, maximum treatment. I wondered right away if this could be considered a kind of super advantage (‘Welcome Madame Delhostal, you are an ultra VIP, for you it will be all inclusive’). And how we would have done if I had an older child (‘Forget Bernard, his kid knows how to tie his shoelaces’). Next I thought I didn’t have much time, better to do. Not the age for that, no background, not fair, no choice. Then I ran a lot to feel alive before they made me sick to keep me alive. I discovered MRIs, Pet Scan, Pac. Plenty of medicine to keep from vomiting. The icy water polo cap during chemo. I immediately found advantages, such as the ‘One Chemo = One Gift’. The first was a hat. Pragmatism“, wrote the sports journalist.
Laurie Delhostal: “So far I haven’t vomited on anyone and I have all my hair”
“I turned off the TV right away. Not too much want to laugh in it. Afraid that my hair will suddenly fall out during a commercial. Everyone said to me: ‘you are a fighter’. As a result, half of the nursing staff in Paris saw me cry. Well I did split after my first chemo. To see. So far I haven’t vomited on anyone and I have all my hair. Normally we don’t tell that to everyone, but life isn’t completely normal anymore. I don’t know if it should be said, but I don’t know why it shouldn’t be said. I don’t really want to talk about it, but I wanted to talk“, added Laurie Delhostal, who received many messages of support after having publicly announced her illness. As a reminder, the journalist had been presenting Club Info since the start of the school year, the new weekly show dedicated to sport, broadcast every Sunday on franceinfo. Laurie Delhostal had also replaced Marina Lorenzo at the presentation of Dimanche Soir Football on Amazon Prime Video last season, during her maternity leave. For the moment, viewers of the L’Equipe channel should not see the journalist on the air again for some time.