The road to remission will be a very long one for TF1’s star weather presenter. In 2012, Evelyn Delia was diagnosed with breast cancer. She fought the disease without giving up the weather forecast.
The announcement of breast cancer in 2012 hit her like a bomb. At 64, Evelyn Delia, the hopeful face of TF1 weather forecast, was diagnosed with breast cancer, which she had to fight through multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. In the columns of Paris Match, the star TF1 weather presenter recalled this difficult period, during which the fight against the disease completely integrated her daily life.
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Before this test. Evelyn Delia never walked through the hospital doors. “It’s the world that comes crashing down on you when someone tells you that,” she explains in our columns. Moreover, after the severity of such a statement, it was necessary to mobilize forces to begin heavy treatment with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, the side effects of which are known to be difficult to tolerate. These include nausea, a feeling of constant weakness, changes in skin composition and especially hair loss. “It’s not a cold: you have the sword of Damocles hanging over your head. And then physically, when you lose your hair, it’s hard for a woman,” adds great friend Catherine Laborde.
Evelyn Delia on TF1 weather set, June 15, 2007.
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If Evelyn Delia’s diagnosis was made in the strictest confidence, there was still a need to warn viewers worried about finding their favorite Miss Weather. “The diagnosis was made in June. Then there was the holidays. At the beginning of the school year, people wondered why I was not there. Therefore, by agreement with TF1, we published a press release. But nothing more, I did not want to talk about it.”
Towards the end of her treatment, Evelyn Delia had to incorporate radiotherapy sessions into her professional schedule: “Getting back to work was very important. (…) During radiotherapy, I went to the hospital in the morning and came to work straight after. “I submitted my ballot in a wig,” she explained. Until the day the presenter bravely decided to show the public her short hair: “It was a way of saying: “This is it, this is me, this is how it is.” I think that many women, when they saw me, said: “I am going through the same thing as her, and it makes me happy to see her.”
TF1’s most iconic weather presenter has since joined the Pink Ribbon Association, dedicated to cancer awareness and early detection. And although she doesn’t dare use the word “cure” yet, Evelyn Delia is indeed in remission after a long battle with the disease and nearly fifty years spent on television.