Worse might not have happened to him at a worse time. Seven months only following the death of Jean-Pierre, while Nathalie Pernaut is still in full mourning and seems difficult to overcome the void left by her husband, she was the victim of a violent attack.
It will undoubtedly leave significant psychological scars, because the suddenness of the attack deeply shocked Nathalie. By her character and the words she uttered, she also tarnished the memory of the king of the JT. The curtain has fallen. After the many tributes paid to his disappearance, an old grudge suddenly rebounded. Everything started from there and led to an irreparable act.
The suffering he caused will probably never be forgiven by JPP’s widow. Verbal attacks are sometimes more difficult to overcome than physical attacks, and the one that affected Nathalie Pernaut was devastating because it came from a man who was close to her husband: Jacques Legros.
A very sudden attack
He and Jean-Pierre dated for nearly twenty-five years. It was thought that friendly ties had been woven over the years. It was nothing. In his book Behind the screen, 40 years at the heart of the media, published by Editions du Rocher, the journalist coldly decides regarding his late colleague: “We were not friends. “He even goes further and severely tackles the one he replaced since 1998: “Having been his joker for twenty-four years without an editorial clash is a source of pride. But I know he was itching to comment on my diary.
He never spoke to me directly, ”he says in sentences full of innuendo. “He wanted to keep the leading role and solicited the team more than necessary, says Jacques Legros once more. He wanted more and more to take control of the whole newspaper. I was starting to boil inside, until one day I burst out, gathered my stuff and started back to the parking lot and my car. Since he wanted to do the newspaper for me, let him come and do it! Upon discovering these words, Nathalie was outraged. In the name of her love, she wanted to react to this posthumous attack and decided to put things right on the show The Morning without filter on Virgin Radio: “I completely hallucinated and above all, Mr. Jacques Legros forgets that he was only his joker.
With courage, she wanted to react
(…) Who, for more than thirty years, has set the tone for 1 p.m. and who has been attributed the audience results? “Wounded, she continues and reveals that the joker was not shy regarding doing “bitch blows” to the king of the JT: “During confinement, Jean-Pierre had to have fifteen minutes on the air. And each time, Jacques Legros did longer and longer subjects. Towards the end, he only had six minutes left on the air! »
Disgusted, disappointed and saddened by this violent attack on her late husband, Nathalie notes the inelegance of the process, what it hides according to her, and its repercussions: “It looks like post-mortem jealousy. What a lack of respect for our grieving family! Me, I really ask myself the question: why this unpacking? To sell this book? Fortunately, JP is no longer there. And frankly, it is better, because we would have had a shock. Indeed, they were not friends, but JP respected him a lot as a colleague, and he often defended him with TF1. “She therefore concludes regarding this unpacking that the journalist would have knowingly wanted to create the buzz by swinging crisp information on the favorite presenter of the French “so that his book sells”.
Undoubtedly significant psychological sequelae
Unfortunately, it is indeed a frequent technique to “reveal” a private or surprising fact to ensure good audiences for a book, a film or a show. In the light of Jacques Legros’s book, we then listen to his tribute during the disappearance of Jean-Pierre Pernaut and we finally realize that he had only evoked their “same vision of France”, but that at no time had the joker spoken of friendship. And some, in the corridors of TF1, admit that they are not surprised by this attack and do not hesitate to suggest that Jacques Legros would have hoped for twenty-four years to be able to sit down one day in his colleague’s chair…
Jean Marc