She publicly recounted her fight against the disease in a podcast released in the spring, called “My life facing cancer”. Suffering from bile duct cancer for a year and a half, Clémentine Vergnaud, journalist at Franceinfo, died on Saturday December 23 at the age of 31, her employer announced.
“The editorial staff of Franceinfo has lost one of its own, a wonderful woman, a journalist of great talent, a friend to many,” declared the editorial staff in its tribute to the journalist.
“During these long months when she fought the illness, Clémentine showed incredible courage, unfailing determination and an immense joie de vivre,” she continues. We all heard her strength of character and her lucidity in the podcast she made to tell the story of her life with the disease.
For her, this ten-episode podcast, released in May and told in the form of a diary, was a way to “leave a trace”, her colleagues point out. They add: “As a journalist, she told her illness, her story within that of a universal story. She brought a lot to the sick, their loved ones and the caregivers. »