from liver cancer to generalized cancer, the last big secret

A symbol. Thierry Ardisson died on Monday July 14, 2025, a national day, at the age of 76. A news that struck the general public with the full force, but who will have little surprised in the newsrooms, already aware of his health problems. His relatives, who followed him until his last breath, had long known that the host was sick. Because Thierry Ardisson succumbed to liver cancer, a lightning disease detected about 15 years ago, targeting an organ already weakened since the 1970s, and which would have become generalized during the year.

The animator was the subject of speculation since the beginning of last week. Already on Wednesday July 9, journalist Clément Garin assured on X that Thierry Ardisson was “at the worst”. On his account, the television specialist columnist, former of TPMPsaid that the creator of Everyone talks about it was “hospitalized for three weeks” and that he was “losing the fight” in the face of cancer, before removing his publication a few hours later.

Thierry Ardisson was well hospitalized for terminal cancer recently. Friday, July 11, the absence of the TF1 news of his wife Audrey Crespo-Mara and the return of Anne-Claire Coudray in her place, without any explanation, caused the first explicit questions of the celebrity press. It is ultimately Audrey Crespo-Mara who will herself announce the death of the television monument on Monday morning. “Thierry left as he lived. As a courageous and free man. With his children and mine, we were united around him. Until his breath blows,” said the 49 -year -old journalist, who has shared the host of the host since 2009.

Thierry Ardisson evokes his illness in a documentary

Thierry Ardisson participated in a documentary retracing his career and his career. Announced on July 1 by TF1, the film written and directed by Audrey Crespo-Mara was scheduled for the first channel this Wednesday, July 16, at 10:50 p.m. Entitled “The hidden face of the man in black”, this intimate portrait sheds light on the personality of the television icon, “through the 10 commandments of his life”, among which “your family, you will flee”, “to drugs, you will succumb”, or even “death in front, you will look”. Ardisson openly evokes his fight against the disease there. Clément Garin indicated in his tweet and in an article, also depressed, that his wife Audrey Crespo-Mara would have filmed it “in his last moments of life”. Information that the interested party, on the other hand, was swept away, judging the “abject” process and announcing procedure against the journalist.

In the press release sent to the press to promote this unprecedented document, the subject was nevertheless clearly mentioned. “Careful for cancer with pity Salpêtrière, at the public hospital where he wants to be a patient like the others. This disease, he learned to live with, far from the spotlight. But for this film, it is in front of a camera, for the sake of absolute transparency and raw truth, that he agrees not to hide anything. Never a public man has opened up to his most raw intimacy. Can we read.

Cancer difficult to treat

It was liver cancer that cost Thierry Ardisson’s life, a disease that had manifested itself a long time ago. In the Midi Libre, Philippe Corti, DJ and longtime friend of the host, assured that the latter had been suffering for years. “We knew he was sick, it has been going on for a while, about fifteen years, but it had been completely stabilized …”, he told the newspaper the day after the death. “It’s been a while since her illness had calmed down. But a few days ago, Audrey called me to tell me that Thierry had no longer for a long time.”

“That [faisait] years that he [était] Sick, “also told the Parisian another friend in the city as on the screen, Laurent Baffie.” There have been changes, treatments. Until the day there was no more possible treatment. The blow, it was Wednesday (July 9 – Editor’s note), when we understood that it was a matter of days, “added the humorist. Several media reports that Thierry Ardisson had suffered from” generalized cancer for several months “and” was hospitalized for a few days “. A long illness that would have suddenly taken over.

Thierry Ardisson had made confidences without taboo in the past, in which he indicated that his liver had been damaged by hepatitis C, contracted during experiences of “speedballs” in the 1970s, a mixture of several drugs. Poorly treated, this hepatitis would have evolved into cirrhosis, a chronic liver disease, then in hepatocellular carcinoma, according to La Voix du Nord.

If this form of cancer is very common, it is very difficult to treat. The diagnosis of liver cancer is often late. As the Curie Institute recalls, the more advanced the stage, the more difficult, even useless the treatment. Even supported in time, this cancer is very dangerous and deadly. The liver being an organ rich in blood vessels, cancer cells can spread and reach other organs quickly. The survival rate at 5 years and less than 20%.

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Thierry Ardisson, pioneer of infotainment until death

Always all dressed in black – which earned him his nickname – and flanked by an eternal smile, Ardisson has shaken the cathodic landscape with his successful evening talk shows, combining information and entertainment. All-Paris went to his shows, among which “midnight baths”, presented from the nightclub of the Bains Showers in Paris, “Black Glasses for White Nights” at the legendary Palace and “Rive Rive / Rive Gauche”, the first daily TV cultural magazine in France.

Thierry Ardisson has known his best hours with “Everyone talks about it”, a weekly program on France 2 (1998-2006) alongside his acolyte Laurent Baffie, where his questions cash, sometimes trash, have often created the buzz. Its very direct interviews, sometimes to rebruits or even intrusive, will have established its reputation of an impertine and prolific figure of the French audiovisual landscape.

Anxious to shape the trace he will leave, Thierry Ardisson had also everything planned for the day of his death that he chose to also stage. As he had entrusted in May to the Parisian, “the day I feel the end approaching, I will decide all the details for my burial”. A real file was therefore sent to several newspapers this Monday, with a list of 7 personalities to contact for testimonies, accompanied by their phone number: Philippe Corti, Laurent Baffie, Franz-Olivier, Léa Salamé, her producer Catherine Barma, her friend Anne Méaux and her first patron, Marie-France Brière. All had received precise instructions on their role at the fateful moment. In this file also included photos validated by Ardisson himself and a 16-minute compilation of his 40 years of television. “No other extract is authorized,” it is specified in the file.

Thierry Ardisson had also explored his singular story very recently, through an original self -fiction “The man in black”, published last May (Plon). In this work, he did not hesitate to settle his accounts with the audiovisual environment. 76 years old, the star host even imagined his own death, by bullets, on the set of Everyone talks about it. Before joining the beyond, he imagined final interviews with the greatest. “I want to see death arriving opposite,” said the thunderous interviewer, Nightclubber, Libertine and Assumed Monarchist in Le Parisien.