his widow Anissa recounts her last moments

A moving testimony. Eight months after being diagnosed with stomach cancer and cancer of the peritoneum, Jean-Luc Delarue died at the age of 48 on August 23, 2012. Well-known face of the Paf for having featured shows like It is discussedthe ten years of his disappearance were recently commemorated on TF1 with the documentary Jean-Luc Delarue, ten years already, excessive success. The opportunity to find out what happened to his last wife, Anissa Khel, whom he married in May 2012, just a few months before his disappearance. It was at the age of 30 that the young woman said “yes” to Jean-Luc Delarue, who breathed her last at her side, as she confided in an interview with 50’Insidein 2016. Discreet, but also upset by the death of her husband, it had taken several years to break the silence.

“He asked me to close the shutters, to turn off the light, to give him his earplugs. That’s what I did. Next, he fell asleepI took a book, I was with him and he passed away in his sleep“, she remembered at the time. It was at the American hospital in Neuilly that Jean-Luc Delarue breathed his last, he who, despite his illness, “never spoke of his death” and “didn’t even conceive her” according to Anissa Khel. “I have the feeling that he left in peace since he fell asleep with a smile”, she said at the time. A confidence that echoes today the last words spoken by Jean-Luc Delarue shortly before his death, to his friend Stéphanie Guérin.

Former collaborator of the animator, she confided in the documentary event for the ten years of her death. The opportunity for her to reveal the last words that he entrusted to her. “We were both facing the window. He said to me: ‘You know Steph, I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not living anymore’, she then remembered. Words that touched Stéphanie Guérin, because she understood at that time that she would not see her friend alive again, after coming to visit him at the hospital every morning for several weeks. “It’s goodbye. I close the bedroom door, and I know I won’t see him again. I know it’s over”she confided.