Brigitte Bardot, buried on January 7 in the Saint-Tropez marine cemetery, was confronted with numerous “physical sufferings” during the last year of her life. Her husband Bernard d’Ormale made rare confidences about the animal friend’s final moments, in “Paris Match”.
Brigitte Bardot is no more and her husband, Bernard d’Ormale, is therefore a man in mourning. As he confided in an interview with Paris Matchhe remained by his wife’s side until his last breath. But what did the animal friend, buried on January 7 in the Saint-Tropez marine cemetery, die of?
Brigitte Bardot: her husband reveals the illness that took her away
Died at the age of 91, Brigitte Bardot did not welcome new animals during the last years of her life, as she feared not seeing them grow. It must be said that she was fighting cancer, which ultimately took her away. “Without regrets, I had a good life, all the same“, she declared to her loved ones before dying, according to Paris Match.
The former icon of French cinema was also emaciated and bruised by severe back pain, which occurred after “a major operation and two anesthesias“.”She had held up very well to the two operations she underwent to treat the cancer that killed her. But she still absolutely wanted to return to Madrague. And there, it was more complicated, in particular because of back pain which did not go away, made her suffer, exhausted her“, confided her husband, Bernard d’Ormale.
To spare her, those close to her did not announce the deaths of her friend Patrice de Colmont, boss of Club 55, and Pierre-Laurent, son of photographer Jicky Dussart, who both breathed their last in the fall of 2025. It must be said that she was particularly upset by the death of her friend Alain Delon in the summer of 2024.
Brigitte Bardot “wanted to leave”: her husband talks about “his physical suffering”
But Brigitte Bardot’s suffering was such that she felt the end coming. “Even if she didn’t let us see it so as not to upset us, Brigitte wanted to leave. It escaped her two or three times in recent months, in moments of physical suffering, she said: ‘I’m fed up, I want to leave…’“, said her husband.
Bernard d’Ormale remained alongside his other half until the last moment. At the hospital, he slept on a mattress installed in the nonagenarian’s room. “And at Madrague, I looked after her, supported by nurses who passed discreetly every day. She walked with great difficulty. A physiotherapist also came. She despaired of not being able to make progress, and I believe that a little because of that, without us realizing it, she gave up“, he clarified.
Brigitte Bardot’s husband also recounted her last moments: “I slept soundly next to her. I sat up when I heard him say ‘Pioupiou’, this little nickname that we each gave each other in private, and then it was over. A fullness, a tranquility were written on his face“.
