The end of 2021 and the start of 2022 was difficult for Marie-Sophie Lacarrau. The 47-year-old presenter, who replaced the deceased Jean-Pierre Pernaut on the 1 p.m. news on TF1, suffered from an illness “rare and severe“by eye. A subject she has already mentioned in interviews.
Big disappointment for fans of Marie-Sophie Lacarrau, at the end of the winter holidays. It is not her that the public has found at the head of the television news, but Jacques Legros. “Hi there. I was looking forward to meeting you tomorrow and wishing you a very happy new year live at 1 p.m…. But a medical concern will prevent me from joining you. (…) It’s an ophthalmological problem“, she confided on Twitter, without going into further details. It was not until February that the public discovered that it was “a rare and severe infection that requires heavy treatment.She had also specified that she had to wear goggles to protect her eyes.
After several months of convalescence, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau returned to television on May 16, 2022. For the occasion, she confided in the Parisian and had said more about the illness that made his life hard. Thus, the public learned that it was a “amoebic keratitis“, a “infection of the cornea by amoebas, parasites found in tap water“.”My eye had to be reaccustomed to light, re-educated. At first I wore sunglasses then I started taking them off. My eye has resumed its habits with surrounding light“, she added.
A very painful disease
The wife of Pierre Bascoul had more poured out on the subject during his visit to Daily (TMC) on May 19. She explained that for two months, she had to live in the dark without a screen, without books and without the possibility of listening to the radio or music because of headaches. “It is very painful. You feel like you have gravel or pieces of glass in your eye. It scratches constantly and it causes pain that goes up in your head and down in your teeth. The specialist who followed me used to say that some pain can be up to 40 times that of a toothache. We don’t ask questions, we wait for things to get better“, she remembered.
In order to heal, she had to use eye drops, among other things.very toxic and very aggressive“. This ordeal has changed Marie-Sophie Lacarrau who now feels “stronger” and “a bit bulimic about everything“.”I have a little desire for everything, and I ask myself perhaps even fewer questions than before. I think it helped me to be more optimistic and positive, I see the glass as half full rather than half empty“, she had concluded.