Sick when hardly anyone knew. In 2017, Catherine Laborde bowed out and presented her latest weather report on TF1. Just “retired”, the companion of Thomas Stern, the one who made the rain and the good weather of the French for several years, revealed that she was suffering from Lewy body disease. A syndrome that can be compared to Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease.
This Thursday, October 6, the man who has accompanied him for so many years, was on the set of TPMP to give news of his wife. And to believe his words, the situation would be complicated, but “not catastrophic” for all that. “Catherine is going so bad, so bad. That is to say, not the total disaster, but not well. Let’s say that she is evolving rather slowly, since she has been sick for four years. Whereas in general, it is an illness that works much faster”he let Cyril Hanouna know at first.
The suicide of his father
Thomas Stern nevertheless qualified his remarks immediately: “But she is not better, because she has, which she did not have before, language and expression disorders. A lot of loss of stability, motor skills. She is not either completely handicapped”. An announcement that did not fail to move the set. But the emotion was even greater when the host broadcast a magneto in which we could see the couple discussing suicide.
“Is it true that you really thought about it?”, asks the host to the companion of Catherine Laborde who reassures with a categorical “no”. But if the subject was mentioned, it is because the ex-weather presenter has already experienced it with an important person in her life. “I say this because that’s what happened with her father to Catherine… Her father died in her arms. And I think the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of a love affair is the silent decision never said that someone will die in the arms of the other”he concluded with a lump in his throat.
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