Jean-Pierre Pernaut’s daughter talks about her “difficult” mourning

Five months after the sudden death of flagship presenter of the 1 p.m. of TF1, his daughter Lou Pernaut, 19, confided in his mourning. A step ” hard “ due to double-edged media coverage. “The first few months are complicated. You have the impression of mourning Jean-Pierre Pernaut and not that of your father “she begins in this interview with the online media Gossip Room, streamed on YouTube. “I saw the journalist, but I no longer saw my dad” she continues. Before explaining that this popularity will have at the same time made it possible to prevent this death from being a secret, therefore a taboo.

“My father belongs to the French, everyone has their little anecdote about him”, she adds. What memory does she keep of her father within her professional environment? “He looked very nice on TV but I know at work he was tough. If everything didn’t go his way, he could freak out a bit.”, she smiles. Before qualifying so as not to harm its warm reputation: “His teams have always supported him because he was very upright in what he did”. If she keeps fond memories of a father “present, nice”the student also evokes her little brother and her mother whom she loves “more than all the universe”.

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This interview was an opportunity to respond to the attacks of his detractors. The daughter of the journalist and former Miss France, Nathalie Markay, has been the target of criticism on social media. L’“lifestyle influencer”as she likes to describe herself, was criticized for not being affected enough by the loss of her father. “Social media is not real life. We are not going to show that we are crying all the time”, she explains, before advocating the freedom of everyone to grieve as they see fit. But the young woman assures her, if she didn’t cry “neither in front of his mother, nor in front of his brother”tears flowed when she was alone or “in the arms of his darling”.

Lou Pernaut is also back on the attacks of Laurent Fontaine of which she does “do not wish to pronounce the name” and the attitude of the teams ” Do not touch My TV “. “They tackled me in front of the whole of France, encouraging me to go to school and saying that my father would not have been proud of me”. Shocked, the journalist’s daughter explained that she “would have liked to be invited to defend themselves” and remember that she is studying interior architecture.