We had seen her again on the air in October 2018, when she told in an interview with "Seven to Eight" on TF1 her "cohabitation with the enemy", this Lewy body disease, a pathology between Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diagnosed six years ago before she bade farewell to TF1 on January 1, 2017. We found this Sunday, October 4
Catherine Laborde, her eyes still sparkling, in a new interview with La Une's Sunday magazine, conducted by Audrey Crespo-Mara.
And what an emotion to listen to the former weather presenter of the private channel from 1988 to 2017 tell about her daily life, but also her relationship with her husband and this outside world that escapes her more and more.
In the image, his bright smile still radiated on his red sweater.
It is he and his strength that we retained when discovering that which is subject to uncontrollable tremors and whose gaze sometimes wanders.
"I will tell you that yes, sometimes I'm fine and sometimes it's not going well," said the former host, who had revealed her illness in her book published in October 2018 "Trembler" (Ed Plon).
In a few years, the enemy has become "a monster that swallows me up", she wrote.
“The monster is fear that paralyzes, that prevents because the evil worsens.
It threw me out of the world of other humans, ”she confirmed this Sunday to the front page reporter.
Since 2014, Catherine Laborde, ex-queen of the weather on TF1, suffers from Lewy body disease, a mixture of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
After 2 years of absence, she gives her news in the "Portrait of the Week" by @ audrey_crespo.
📺 This Sunday, from 6:20 p.m. on @ TF1 pic.twitter.com/bVX38npKNs
- Seven to Eight (@ 7a8) October 2, 2020
She who dreamed of going to Japan had to give up the trip, weighed down by "this heavy weight" to carry.
She sometimes looks for her words which now fly away “whenever I want to say something close to my heart”.
“I am absorbed by this disease.
I have to put myself next to my life, not in it, ”she explained.
"Total despair, like a child who has lost"
His symptoms?
“I keep losing my memory all the time.
There, I just spoke to you and I no longer remember what I had said half an hour earlier.
We no longer know where we are, who we are.
And also to evoke her loss of balance and landmarks, especially in the dark, which oblige her to be accompanied when she goes out into the street.
Without forgetting a word for his neurologist "who works to balance all this, so that there is no apparent madness and remain in the world of the living".
Yet "I feel total despair, like a child who has lost, like a person who no longer has any connection with the outside," she said.
Certainly, the former star of TF1 still very popular still recognizes his relatives.
With a caveat.
“I don't know who is in a room, who is going or going in.
I recognize them and, at the same time, I do not recognize them.
It's both.
"
It is her husband Thomas Stern, with whom she signs a dialogue “Sick love.
When to love becomes to help ”to appear on October 8 by Plon, which had spotted the first symptoms six years ago.
From now on, he watches over her, reassures her, in love and bewildered too.
“It's very complicated to help someone who has this disease.
There is this danger that the helped take the place of the beloved, ”said the sexagenarian.
I would like to train him again to go for walks.
There is a time that has ended.
Before this illness, I did not know it.
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VIDEO. Catherine Laborde: "I forbade myself to cry"
The annoyances of her spouse, who evokes in their dialogue his "desire for murder"?
“He needs to be angry to love me.
I understand this desire to kill the one who brings evil ”, sympathizes Catherine Laborde.
When she reviewed the images from her last weather report, she said: “It seems far away to me, because, all the same, it is the disease that will prevail.
It's a shame, I would have liked it to last a long time.
"Before concluding, always optimistic:" Life always goes on.
"