Jean-Luc Reichmann has always been extremely close to his mother, Josette. A woman well known to TV viewers 12 shots of noon as the host talked about her or highlighted her on his social networks. But in August 2022, the presenter’s world came crashing down when his mother passed away. A sorrow that he had shared with Internet users. “Today I’m crying, my heart no longer shines, yours is extinguished. Tonight, your place will be empty at belote, because you went to play again with Dad A funny life. Together you taught us to give, to share, to transmit, to work, to fight with respect, to laugh, to bring together, to say everything to each other, to be strong and loyal but above all sincere. You brought sunshine into my life every day, Mom, with your words so true, your expressions so funny, your reflections so shocking. Excuse me Mom but today I’m in so much pain. I will try to continue the path that you have traced, that of the magic of life that you opened to us with Dad, but with this unbearable feeling of missing you, of your voice on a daily basis, of your look so mischievous and so complicit, of your presence so charismatic”, he wrote on his Instagram account.
Jean-Luc Reichmann still upset by his mother’s last words
No less than 4 years later, the pain is still immense for Jean-Luc Reichmann who spoke with an open heart at the microphone of LegendGuillaume Pley’s podcast. If he revealed that he had had time to tell his mother everything, he also revealed that he “braked“. “She always had something. Grandchildren non-stop…Children non-stop…I said : ‘But mom, calm down,'” he said. He also revealed his mother’s heartbreaking last words before she died proving all his devotion to his family. “Before she left, she apologized for leaving. Can you imagine? For me, it is the height of self-sacrifice. ‘Excuse me, but I have to go’. And this transmission in relation to my sister, the grandchildren etc… Knowing that obviously I will always be there but when your mother says : ‘Excuse me, I have to leave, I can’t take it anymore'”, he declared, while his mother was on dialysis.
“She was a unifier on everything. It was life, joy, aperitifs, non-stop singing. It sang in the car“, added the TF1 host, who lamented that his mother no longer answered him. “We must not forget that, when I say that life is ephemeral, he lamented, with tears in his eyes. That is to say that everything can stop at any moment and then I no longer have the answers. So, that’s what’s the most painful and at the same time, you’re looking at my wallpaper. Mom is here. And mom, she will always be there. When she smiles at me, she tells me : Come on, it doesn’t matter.
The secrets of Jean-Luc Reichmann on the death of his father
At 65, Jean-Luc Reichmann also lost his father. A disappearance all the more significant since he learned that his dad had passed away 5 minutes before the start of filming for the series Léo Mattéï, juvenile brigade. “I remember when dad left us. It was about ten years ago. And I learned of my father’s death at 8:55 a.m., and ready to shoot is at 9 a.m.“, he confided in the podcast Legend. A death that he didn’t expect at all, even though his dad was over 80 years old.
“All the strength he gave me, all the education my parents gave me, there you give ithe explained. You say : ‘For him, I’m going’. And there, when we say : ‘Engine, it’s running!’, you breathe several times. It’s rare not to be sincere, but there the emotions about Léo Mattéï were very strong, because when you have to go and question a kid who has been abused, you think about it. You can’t think of anything else anyway.” A moving testimony.
