Alain Delon asked his son to prepare his euthanasia: “It is the most logical and natural”

Anthony Delon, son of film legend Alain Delon, has revealed that his father, who turned 86 last November, asked him to arrange his euthanasia.

In dialogue with French radio RTLsaid he made a promise to accompany his father to the endaccording to your latest instructions. “Yes, it’s true, he asked me for that (for euthanasia)”, he admitted in an interview granted on the occasion of the launch of his book Between the dog and the wolfwhere he reviews his life.

According to the magazine Le Point, Alain was sensitized by the way his son cared for his ex-wife Nathalie Delon, who died in January this year for pancreatic cancer. “It is true that I accompanied my mother. It is true that she decided to die as she lived. She had chosen to opt for euthanasia”, he narrated.

Then he clarified that finally his mother did not use that means to die. “Fortunately we do not resort to this process. I say fortunately because everything was ready. We had the person,” she explained.

Alain lives in Switzerland, where the procedure is legal, and urged his son to organize the entire process and accompany him in his last moments. In recent interviews, the famous actor stated that he would not hesitate to resort to euthanasia if necessary.

“I am in favor (of euthanasia). First because I live in Switzerland, where euthanasia is legal, and also because I think it is the most logical and natural thing to do.”said the artist in an interview with a local television channel.

“At a given moment, the person has the right to leave in peace, without going through hospitals, injections and others…”, declared the French actorwhile confessing that he had already made his will so that his inheritance would not be lost.

After suffering a double stroke in 2019, the actor gradually recovered and feels much better, although he has to walk with a cane. “Getting old sucks!”, he said shortly before his hospitalization three years ago. “You can’t do anything about it. You lose face, you lose sight. You wake up and damn your ankle hurts“, She complained.

a movie legend

His legend began in Cannes. He went there for the first time in 1956, invited by one of his many conquests, and despite the fact that he had not yet shot any film, his physique and impudence soon made him known and made it easier for him to leave that edition with a good contact list. .

“If he hadn’t been an actor, he’d be dead. cinema was my destiny”, he acknowledged in 2017 in the magazine paris match the interpreter, born in Sceaux, on the outskirts of the French capital and in a broken family that made him end up in the hands of foster parents.

He embraced the profession in a self-taught way at the express request of his first director, Yves Allégretwho in 1957, with “Quand la femme s’en mêle”, gave him advice that became his mantra: “Be you, don’t act”.

The list of first-rate filmmakers with whom he subsequently worked makes Delon not only an icon of French cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, but also one of the great emblems of international cinematography.

The consecration came in 1960 from the hand of Luchino Visconti with “Rocco e i suoi fratelli”but in his filmography titles like “La Piscine” (1969), by Jacques Deray, or, in the same year, “Le clan des siciliens”, by Henri Verneuil.

“It was the women who loved me who made me get into this profession and who fought for me”, recalled the actor in Cannes.

Long list of romances

Some of her most notorious romances were with co-workers. to the Austrian Romy Schneider He met her in 1958 on the set of Pierre Gaspard-Huit’s “Christine”, when she was already famous thanks to the success of “Sissi” and he was just a debutant.

For five years they were the “boyfriends of Europe”until, unable to tell the truth to her face, Delon broke up with her by letter to go with the model and actress Natalie Canovaswho in 1964 gave birth to her son anthony.

The big screen later brought them together in films like “La Piscine” and Schneider remained an important figure in his life. “A star never goes out”, he said of her last September on the occasion of what would have been the 82nd birthday of the actress, who died in 1982.

Your relationship with brigitte bardot It has always been platonic, according to both protagonists, and longer stories, such as the one that united him with the Dutch model and presenter Rosalie Van Breemanfrom which his two young children were born, anouchka (1990) and Alain Fabien (1994).

“I do three things very well: my job, nonsense and children”, stated Delon in the past, winner of the César Award for French cinema in 1985 for best leading actor for “Notre Histoire”, by his compatriot Bertrand Blier.

Old age progressively removed him from the media spotlight and the stroke he suffered in 2019 ended up confining him.

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