“My love, you left as you lived”: Audrey Crespo-Mara publishes her upset speech at the funeral of Thierry Ardisson

She will have accompanied her “great love” Until his last breath. Consequently, Audrey Crespo-Mara made public the farewell letter that she pronounced during the funeral of Thierry Ardisson. Moreover, on July 17 at the Saint-Roch church in Paris. Furthermore, Three days earlier. Furthermore, it was the one who announced to AFP the disappearance of the host and star producer after a long fight against liver cancer, also attacking a blogger who had anticipated his death. Similarly, During the funeral. Furthermore, prepared in the smallest detail by “the man in black” of the PAF, the journalist of TF1 delivered a touching speech there, which she was kind enough to publish “my love, you left you on Instagram, the next day.

“You were Ardisson until your last breath”

“My love, you left as you lived. As a courageous, dignified and free man. And that forces us, the children and me. You have helped us so much in recent weeks. in recent days, to accept what seemed to us unacceptable, to be a little less devastated”started the Anne-Claire Coudray joker by addressing her late husband. In this two -page text. she evokes her “Sixteen dream years” with a man whom she describes as “Surprising, hilarious, stunning, stunning, the dream man”, A man who “Share at 76, in patriarch, in Padre” But above all a man “courageous, at every moment”, “faced with illness”, but also “each day” of his life.

The director of the “portrait of the week” of “seven to eight” did not elected the client personality of the king of the interview produced: “You are entitled. frank, without “my love, you left you filter, without pretense. It didn’t just make friends. So what? You didn’t care”. But she prefers to hold her “romantic life”. “Creative, you were in fact at every moment of our life. Fleeing the standard, the established order … “. Recalls Audrey Crespo-Mara in her deeply personal text, also evoking their recomposed family, their five children, the giggles, and the tender man hidden under the black armor of the media character. She also entrusts the words that Thierry Ardisson slipped to her shortly before her death: “I have been gone. if I didn’t love you for a long time”. After a dash of humor when she mentions her departure “A July 14. you the monarchist “, She concludes this letter with a final and poignant tirade on these last moments, passed by her side: “You were Ardisson until your last breath. The latter blows, I lived it in your arms“.

“my love, you left you

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A documentary broadcast before his funeral

Highly anticipated. delivered to everyone’s surprise very quickly on TF1, the documentary written and produced by Audrey Crespo-Mara revealed a classic biography of the television man but also a touching path against the disease. Composed of “moments of media anthology. unpublished personal archives “ and “Testimonials from relatives” of the pre-producer, this portrait was aimed at revealing “intimate Thierry behind the spectacular Ardisson“. In any case, he made a nice audience score with 1,40 million Curious in front of the front page between 10:52 p.m. and 0.44 am, according to Médiamétrie. This represents 20. 1% of the whole public aged four and over, 18,6% 25-49 year olds and 19,0% Women responsible for purchases under “my love, you left you the age of 50 (FRDA-50). Tuesday July 15. 2025, “Ardisson, the man in black: the tribute”, evening presented live on France 2 by Stéphane Bern, accompanied by Philippe Corti, Maïtena Biraben or Marie-France Brière, had federated 1.55 million viewers between 9:05 p.m. and 11:14 p.m. 10.3% of the public and 7.1% of the FRDA-50s (re) discovered the animator-producer, actor of the small screen for 40 years.