A secret he kept until his last breath. On July 14th, Thierry Ardisson passed away at the age of 76. The television host and producer died following a discreet, years-long battle with liver cancer . While he never spoke about it publicly, he agreed to do so in front of his wife, Audrey Crespo-Mara’s, camera. For months, the journalist filmed her husband for her documentary, “The Hidden Face of the Man in Black,” which aired on Wednesday, July 16th on TF1 . The opening scenes of the program are poignant. Lying on a hospital bed at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, where he was being treated for liver cancer, Thierry Ardisson reveals that the disease has returned. “The carcinoma on my liver is healing. It’s starting to grow veins again, you see, it’s rebuilding itself a little.” “So, what we’ve decided to do is radiotherapy ,” he tells the nurse.@@@
