Sunday March 31, 2024, Anthony Delon gave news of his father, Alain Delon. Thus breaking the fog around the actor’s state of health, Anthony Delon spoke in complete transparency about the illness from which the Cheetah suffers. “He has had strokes, he has stents, has been taking medication for X amount of time, he has been sick for a long time,” first mentioned the actor in the columns of Entrevue magazine. Then, Anthony Delon wanted to be reassuring about his father’s mental and physical strength: “He’s very durable, very solid, like those old-fashioned guys, a rock.”
Nevertheless, Alain Delon is fighting against cancer, despite his inability to fully follow treatment: “You should know that my father, at the age of 87, had type B lymphoma, which progressed extremely slowly. He was treated with imbruvica. Imbruvica is a so-called immunotherapy treatment, it is effective in a curative way if you combine it with chemo. But my father couldn’t do chemo, he was far too fragile and too old. It would have killed him. The Swiss therefore began to treat him with this experimental drug, in palliative care.” Thursday April 4, 2024, as reported by BFMTV, Alain Delon was placed under reinforced curatorship, by decision of the Montargis court.
Anne Parillaud: “One of the greatest, one of the most beautiful”
Sunday April 7, 2024, on the set of the show 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, Anne Parillaud reacted to the latest news made public concerning the actor. “How do you feel today when you hear today that the courts have decided to put him under curatorship?”, asked Laurent Delahousse. The actress and writer then replied: “It’s hard because apart from the fact that I knew him intimately, in everyone’s eyes he is an actor, one of the greatest, one of the most beautiful… [ ] Everyone gets older, and ultimately, you can’t escape it.”, she regretted. A little earlier in the interview, Anne Parillaud wrote about Alain Delon with admiration and tenderness, evoking an extraordinary life journey: “He is a chipped being, with enormous flaws, enormous gaps, a real melancholy…”