Died more than ten years ago, the famous Cathy Sarraï alias Super Nanny had taken a plane ticket for Fiji a week before her death. Back on his discreet fight against the disease.
At only 13 years old, Cathy Sarraï becomes the fiancée of the son of an elegant passer-by. When she got a “high school diploma, usually reserved for boys”, she stayed home for three children to take care of her seven siblings. In September 1979, a few days before her 17th birthday, Cathy Sarraï and her husband took a flight to Paris. The young girl learns French there. Engaged in a kindergarten as a canteen, Cathy managed to stand out little by little without training, and this is how she found herself an educator in a home for young delinquents.
Cathy Sarraï, the star character of “Super Nanny”, is one of the legends of French television. On January 20, 2010, the chain announced that she had succumbed to breast cancer. All the fans of the show were in shock when they heard the bad news.
A FIGHT IN THE GREATEST DISCRETION
The least we can say is that she had marked generations with her personality, her behavior and especially her perception of the education of children and their parents. For the first time, Cathy Sarraï had conquered cancer, but some time later, this courageous woman relapsed. At the very beginning, Cathy Sarraï had remained very discreet about her illness, she did not want it to be known.
She had started chemotherapy and was going back and forth from the Saint-Cloud hospital, but with the treatment not working, her condition continued to deteriorate. Only then had she started talking about it.
“She always found excuses to explain her absence. She did everything so that we did not know anything”,
had remembered Bibiane Godfroid, M6 program director at the time.
Despite the fight she had undertaken against “the dirty disease”, it had finally got the better of her. Died at the age of 47, Cathy Sarraï left behind her three children: Eptissem, Najoua and Hamadi.
HOW DID SHE LEARN ABOUT HER ILLNESS?
Even if she did not want to talk to anyone about her illness, Cathy Sarraï still put Aouatef, a friend and hairdresser, in the confidence. Aouatef was in the kitchen at home to break the Ramadan fast when she received a phone call from Cathy. She asked her what she was doing. “I cook,” she replied.
“When you’re done, come see me, I’m in the hospital. I have the dirty disease”,
then said Cathy Sarraï.
Her friend Aouatef therefore stopped everything and immediately went to the hospital. She discovers there that Cathy Sarraï has many organs affected, and a 20% risk of dying. When death is involved, this percentage remains huge.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEATH
In a press release, the M6 channel announced that it had just learned with great sadness that Cathy Sarraï, alias Super Nanny, died on the night of January 20, 2010. due to illness.
It was his agent Amir Zogib who first reported the bad news. The information was then confirmed at 20 minutes by M6. All of the channel’s employees had shared the pain of his family and loved ones in this harsh ordeal.
As for the production of the show “Super Nanny”, the information fell on January 21, 2010, in the morning. In shock, no comment was heard. But later, Fremantle Media, the production house of the cult show, had expressed its desolation.
In the minutes that followed the announcement of the tragedy, thousands of his fans from Europe and the Maghreb had formed a group on Facebook and Twitter to pay tribute to him. Young mothers had also shared their sadness.
“It’s as if we knew her: through her advice”,
were we able read.
In addition, Elodie Bardot, 10, with whom “Super Nanny” had filmed one of its last episodes, still had trouble admitting that her shock nanny had died. On the other side of the Mediterranean, the famous Tunisian singer Faiza, close to the star of the small screen, had also expressed the fact that the emotion was immense at home as in France.
Cathy Sarraï was buried in her native land in Tunis, with her mother, who left like her following breast cancer.
A TRIP PLANNED A WEEK BEFORE HIS DEATH
Cathy Sarraï worked a lot, but also enjoyed spending time with her family and friends. A week before her death, exhausted, the woman of television that she was wanted to take time for herself. So, she had announced to the production that she intended to go to Fiji with friends, in order to go shopping and spend some time relaxing there. She had even bought plane tickets before, but alas, she was never able to make this trip.
Nobody could have known that his departure was going to happen so quickly, not even her. Amir Zogib, living in Switzerland at the time, had even planned to go see her the week following her death. Five days before her death, Cathy told her friend Amir that she was feeling better and was already getting the better of her illness. She even let him know that she was looking forward to seeing him and having lunch with him in Paris. Fate would have it otherwise, but Cathy Sarraï remains in the hearts of the French, and particularly of the families she helped as a Super Nanny!
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