"I could have a stroke at any moment": Alexandre Delpérier breaks his silence on 13 years of battle

For 13 years, Alexandre Delpérier remained silent. A former television presenter, sports journalist, and familiar voice on the small screen, he chose to keep secret a deeply personal and terribly difficult ordeal: a rare disease that puts him at constant risk of stroke. Today, he breaks his silence with strikingly blunt words: "I could have a stroke at any moment."

An invisible disease, a constant threat

Alexandre Delpérier suffers from antiphospholipid syndrome, a rare condition that causes the abnormal formation of blood clots. It's a silent, invisible, but potentially devastating illness. For all these years, the former television presenter has lived with this Damocles' sword hanging over his head, in complete secrecy.

In the world of television, image matters more than anything, as does the opinion of others. Admitting such vulnerability can unfortunately be seen as a sign of weakness and vulnerability. Eliciting pity? That held little appeal for Alexandre Delpérier, who therefore kept this terrible truth to himself.

A life marked by tragedy

Alexandre Delpérier also spoke of other terrible wounds, including the loss of a child at birth and his father's suicide. Still going strong, Alexandre Delpérier has no plans to return to television at the moment. He now leads a new life as a painter, under the name Arnaud Dumat…