Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge’s controversial intervention during the Gémeaux awards ceremony last Sunday was intended to be “a call for a vote” on October 3 and was motivated by “a desire for revenge”.
Posted at 10:08 p.m.
This is what the main interested party confided to host Stéphan Bureau on Friday evening on the set of the debate show The world upside down, on TVA. This was the first interview for the host of Masked singers since his breakout.
“The first message I wanted to give is: ‘There are elections coming up and it’s important to go and vote. As a father, as a citizen.’ »
During the gala devoted to the small screen, on September 18, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge interrupted the mistress of ceremonies Véronique Cloutier to deliver a monologue that was confusing to say the least on the importance of voting, not without scratching Guy A. Lepage and Louis Morissette. In essence, the first would lack humility, the second “braille[rait] for rich problems.
“It was a way of saying directly to Guy A. in front of everyone, in front of the whole industry — which is very annoying —, ‘You hurt me. I think you weren’t nice. , that you were not respectful and that you took yourself for another.” I didn’t do it the right way. I had a turd on my heart, I was still hurt from my year that I spent. I shouted it awkwardly. »
Guy A. Lepage’s remarks to which Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge refers were made following the passage of the actor and host to the episode of Everybody talks about it of April 25, 2021. He “who speaks for six minutes in place of Éric Duhaime, it is not the idea of the century”, had afterwards declared the host of Everybody talks about it to our colleague Marc Cassivi. In editing, I would have hugged it to the oil change. I was really in tabarnak. »
” You hurt me ”
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge also explains that he was stung by a joke by Louis Morissette on the same set, on December 5, 2021. “But what happens with the Medicago vaccine? I ask for a friend! “, he had asked the doctors Caroline Quach and Cécile Tremblay,
“When Louis Morissette, right after I lost my contract with Hyundai, made a joke about the [vaccin] Medicago and he laughed at me, I tried to call him and said, “Oh, my friend, you hurt me.” I couldn’t join him at that time,” he told the show. the upside-down world.
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge says he was able to speak again with his two colleagues. “I settled all my affairs with them. It’s a squabble of grown-ups in a schoolyard in front of everyone. It was not necessary. »
Sunday evening, a segment of the gala which was to honor the work of documentary craftsmen had to be sacrificed because of Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge’s three-minute “desire for revenge”. This theft of time and space elicited a plethora of heartbroken and shocked reactions.
Friday evening, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge apologized to the “documentarists [qu’il a] interrupted” and “to the children of Louis and Véro and Guy A. because they have nothing to do with this story”.
Take care of your health
The 46-year-old host also returned to his refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19 while waiting for doses from the Quebec manufacturer Medicago. In September 2021, The Press had revealed that the actor and director had lost a contract on the set of District 31 because of his vaccination status.
“I didn’t understand that the fact that I think slightly differently could cause me huge problems like these. I didn’t think that being afraid of something could cause me to lose my job, extremely harsh or even violent criticism. I felt abandoned by everyone. »
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge does not rule out that his stunt falls within a context of ” burn out “.
He now intends to take a break from the public eye to celebrate his marriage to Émilie Bégin and to take care of his health.