Guest of Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, Guillaume Durand once again confided in the jaw cancer on which he had been operated, explaining that he had “a debt” to those who cared for him. He took the opportunity to send a strong message.
Last May, Guillaume Durand was absent from the morning show of Radio Classique, which he has hosted since 2008. On Christmas day, the journalist explained the reasons for this absence in a tweet and announced the date of his return to the air. . “I find Radio Classique at the start of the school year. The morning remains for young people. Thanks science / medicine. First jogging after a hell of cancer operated for 10 hours on June 25. Then chemo and radio followed by a good Covid. Take fear by the hand and live. Be careful at Christmas “, he wrote thus. He has since explained that he had been operated on for jaw cancer, detected when he thought he was suffering from a simple toothache. The height of bad luck, the former presenter of the late Five was also infected with Covid-19. “When I was operated on, imagine for a second that my operation was canceled due to the massive Covid crisis, it is unlikely that I would be facing you today”, he had indicated to Bruce Toussaint, on the antenna of BFMTV.
The journalist confides on “his phenomenal debt”
Guillaume Durand was the guest of Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine in C to you to talk one last time about his illness. The seasoned TV man told his hostess he was in more pain than “the first time he made a journal” on the radio in 78 of the stage fright. “I’m nervous because I feel like I have, and that’s why I’m talking and I’m going to stop right after this show, an absolutely phenomenal debt to the people who took care of me during all these months: incredible surgeons, attentive neurologists, cardiologists always there night and day. People of a scientific level, that’s also why I speak, and that we are in a phenomenon where science and belief are opposed. What they did to me, I didn’t even know it existed “, he explained. Before adding: “I cannot but say two or three things which are external to politics, which are external to feelings and which come from the bottom of my heart for doctors and maybe for those who still do not believe in science “.
Guillaume Durand talks about the way he spoke about his cancer to those close to him
Guillaume Durand also returned to the way in which he had learned that he was suffering from cancer and his immediate thoughts for those close to him. “How was I going to tell this to my family when I got home? I was writing a book on Manet. I’m back home. There was my assistant. I told him : ‘I have cancer’. I continued to write a bit. And then after, I said to myself: ‘I have to go see my wife, I have to go see my children’“, he said.