Host’s first love, Elsa Guyonagreed to speak in the documentary Jean-Luc Delarue: 10 years already, of excess success, broadcast this Wednesday, August 24 on TF1. Ten years already Jean-Luc Delarue died at the age of 48 from stomach cancer. And the one who disappeared on August 23, 2012 continues to see his story, with its dark aspects, fascinate. In the documentary, his former companion decided to come back to a terrible episode in their lives: the animator’s suicide attempt producer while they were in his car.
She returns to this characteristic of Jean-Luc Delarue of not being “often not happy with himself“. And that evening as always after a show, place for four hours of debriefing or the star of It is discussed announces that nothing is wrong. “And when it’s really bad, there’s a lot of vodka“, she specifies. That evening, there will still be lots of vodka and she decides not to let him go home alone. “One day, after a program he presented drunk, he is in great distress, and unfortunately, we get in the car because I’m afraid to let him go on his own and he’ll kill himselfshe says. And at that moment, Jean-Luc, I don’t know why, he starts rolling, he starts crying, and he tells me ‘We’ll be better up there’ and he rushes like crazywe take a street lamp and there we do three rolls and we end up on the roof.“
Jean-Luc has half his face open
Elsa then describes an excruciating scene where “Jean-Luc has half of his face open, that is to say that he no longer has any hair, the eye is completely open“, she recounts. After this accident, he would have accused her in his place of being behind the wheel, in front of the police, and would have finally been sewn up alive, so much he was alcoholic and on drugs, according to the account of Vincent Mesclet in his book Jean-Luc Delarue the star who did not love himself. “There are two Jean-Lucs, that is to say that at the weekend he cries in my mum’s arms, he says I can’t anymore, I want to stop and on Monday he has to take on the costume of producer animator and it gets harder and harder“, reports Elsa Guyon in the TF1 documentary. A chilling story.