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“The hidden face of the man in black” unrolls in 1:40 am the course of the host Thierry Ardisson, who died of liver cancer on Monday July 14.
Media – “Since 2012, Thierry Ardisson has been treated for liver cancer”. Two days after the death of the pre-producer, TF1 broadcast, this Wednesday, May 16, from 10:50 p.m., an intimate documentary produced by his wife, journalist Audrey Crespo-Mara. The hidden side of the man in black In 1:40 a.m. the controversial and impertinent star’s journey of the small screen in 1:40 am, who died on Monday from cancer at 76 years old.
The first images of the documentary, filmed in 2012, are poignant. We see Thierry Ardisson, in the greatest simplicity on a hospital bed in Pitié Salpêtrière, where he was treated with liver cancer. He is all dressed in black, as usual, to the socks.
In the fight against the disease, the host still wants to fight and still believes thirteen years ago in treatment by “Radiotherapy” who could treat him.
Discussing with a nurse, he said: ” I believe in my good star, me. When we see where I come from, honestly, if I did not have a good star, I would not be there, even on this bed ”. The more earth-to-earth spirit, Audrey Crespo-Mara adds: “We hope that the carcinoma disappears”.
“A little Flaubert under acid”
It is on this sequence that a feature film is opening that seeks to show, without filter and without modesty, a Thierry Ardisson too “No” as possible. Audrey Crespo-Mara interviewed her husband for a long time, often moved to tears, her children and friends, and found photos and writings of adolescence.
Thierry Ardisson believed in “An error in maternity” Concerning him, made a suicide attempt, was « junk » but saved by “Faith”and his first work in the pub was his “Large school”said the one who became a star of the small screen from the 1980s.
His acolyte Laurent Baffie describes the “Dichotomy” in him, between “Its trashy side” et “The pope’s photo on his desk”. Her friend the communicator Anne Meaux evokes her “Hypersensitivity”.
Audrey Crespo-Mara, his third wife married in 2014, A “Bonified”says Laurent Baffie. “I am not perfect but I try to love people more”said the interested party, still tormented.
Family videos in support, his three children testify to a father “Egocentric” et “Filter without”, “A little Flaubert under acid”who offered them the childhood he would have dreamed of.
Until the last months, but not until the last days, the couple is filmed during the numerous consultations and exams at the Pitié-Salpétrière hospital in Paris for this liver cancer which he will not cure. The man in black, who prepared in advance all the details of his funeral, will be buried this Thursday, in Paris. On the announcement, he used yet another point of black humor: “Dear friends, dear enemies, last good evening!” »»