Thierry Ardisson’s death from liver cancer was announced by his family on July 14th. What are the risk factors and symptoms of this disease? Here’s what you need to know.

“Thierry passed away as he lived.” “As a courageous and free man.” These were the words Audrey Crespo-Mara, journalist and wife of Thierry Ardisson, used to describe her husband’s death on July 14th at the age of 76. “He’d been ill for years. Years. There were changes, treatments. Until the day there were no more possible treatments. The devastating blow came on Wednesday, when we understood it was a matter of days,” his longtime friend Laurent Baffie told Le Parisien.

In the documentary *The Hidden Face of the Man in Black*, written and directed by Audrey Crespo-Mara and broadcast on July 16th on TF1, Thierry Ardisson reveals that he had been suffering from liver cancer since 2012. The documentary crew followed him to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (APHP) in Paris in December 2024, when… He is about to undergo radiotherapy. A few months later, in March 2025, he learns that he has nodules in his lungs.