Become much rarer in the media in recent years due to his state of health, Bernard Tapie appeared on the show The Great Interviews of LCP on Sunday February 28, 2021. A program during which the former president of OM had confided in particular about his father. But to have news of the businessman, it is on his relatives that it is necessary to count. Invited by the channel Non Stop People Saturday March 6, 2021, Jean-Claude Dassier mentioned Bernard Tapie during his time on the show What have they become ? "I obviously have news. We had glorious hours with him. I regularly went to see Marseille's matches in the Champions League, European Cup with him. I find him admirable because, he is like everything the world, it has a few flaws, I knew a few at the time, but honestly what it takes there, manage his illness as he does, transmit the message to other patients as he says it and as he carries it, I say 'bravo' ", underlined Jean-Claude Dassier.
Bernard Tapie: "I am considering death, I am no longer afraid of death"
"He is going through a terrible ordeal, I hope he will come out of it. He himself says: 'I am considering death, I am no longer afraid of death'. He does it with extraordinary class and elegance and he deserves a tip of the hat ", added the one who regularly intervenes on the antenna of CNews. Bernard Tapie also spoke about his state of health during his stay on the set of Laurent Delahousse on January 31, 2021 in 8:30 p.m. on Sunday sure France 2. "I'm waiting, we're looking … Treatments that were effective have been proven. I had lost 75% of my tumors and within two months they had doubled with metastases", he had revealed.
Supported in this terrible ordeal by his wife Dominique, Bernard Tapie had taken advantage of being interviewed by Audrey Crespo-Mara as part of the show Seven to Eight to evoke their relationship. "She supports me by being what she is. That is to say, she doesn't pity me, she does not say to me: 'My poor darling'. It doesn't add anything to my sorrow or my pain for having put her in the shit, because we are married under the regime of the community, that we lived broke and that we are going to come back broke at the same time, but she doesn't care so it's okay", he explained on TF1.
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