Cathy Gauthier spoke about her diagnosis of generalized anxiety and her postpartum depression on the set of Sweety salty.
In an interview Thursday with Mélanie Maynard, the comedian and host said that “she fears dying at any moment”, while we were talking about her participation in the documentary Mom, why are you crying?, by Jessica Barker last year.
“It allowed me to discover that I have generalized anxiety. […] I’m afraid of dying every moment of my life,” she said.
“It became very disabling for a while. For a three-four years, I mean, I was no longer able to drive my car, I was no longer able to leave our house. I was convinced that I was going to get hit by a garbage truck there, then I was convinced that it was at the corner of Saint-Joseph and Papineau [à Montréal]. I wasn’t able to cross that street corner. I knew I was sick, but not being able to talk about it, not being able to admit that you have that too, that’s one thing. You know, to go ask for help, again that’s super taboo.
Cathy Gauthier also says she is going through premenopause. “I had heard about that, me, the night sweats. I said to myself: “Ah, it must be good women who are a little hot from the pinch!” I didn’t think I had to get up to change my sheets in the middle of the night! I will talk about it in my next show.”
This next and surely “last” solo show, her fifth, she is waiting to “live on business” and be 50 before presenting it, said the 46-year-old comedian, who is focusing on radio for the moment, having stopped his tour prematurely. Classic.
At the end of the interview which took place at theBarbie Expo, at Cours Mont-Royal, in Montreal, the flamboyant Varda Étienne, disguised as Barbie from Brossard, showed up with Cathy’s daughter, Alice. Both Cathy Gauthier and Mélanie Maynard then dressed up as Barbie.