It’s a memory he keeps, as this interview disappointed him; in an interview he gave to Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine this Friday on France 5 in C to youLaurent Delahousse returned to the disillusionment he had in 2012 when he had to interview head of state Mikhail Gorbachevin duplex at 8 p.m. on France 2. Happy to have the honors of asking questions to a man as powerful as the last president of the USSR who declared its dissolution in 1991, the spouse of Alice Taglioni quickly became disillusioned by learning via his headset that his guest was… totally drunk !
“I had a translator who told me from the start that my interlocutor was drunk and drunk”the journalist began, without initially revealing Gorbachev’s identity. Pushed to its limits by Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine, the host of Un jour, un destin finally gave up: “I was so happy to receive it, because I am from the generation of the fall of the wall, I lived through that. I was happy to receive it. But when he arrived, the translator told me:Mr. Delahousse, Mr. Gorbachev is drunk. I don’t understand what he says to me. It was chaotic!” explained the one who presents the France 2 weekend news as well as 8 p.m. Le Dimanche. Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30, 2022 at the age of 91.
Almost 17 years at the helm of France 2’s 8 p.m.
Invited alongside Anne-Sophie Lapix, Julian Bugier and Leïla Kaddour-Boudadi for a France 2 news special, which was successful with 1.36 million viewers for more than 8.2% of the public, Laurent Delahousse came back to the position he has held at 8 p.m. on France 2 for seventeen years already : “The 8 p.m. news is sacred (…) It is a meeting that has been institutionalized for a very long time, which has become a meeting for the French, which has a guarantee of responsibility and balance. We are back in opinion journalism today. On television sets, there are people who talk to you about Covid, the war in Ukraine, the age of the prime minister. We must exercise restraint. I’ve been holding back for fifteen years.” explained the one who does not intend, for the moment, to give up his chair to anyone.