Former sports journalist Marie-Claude Savard spoke with an open heart on Sunday evening The true naturenotably addressing the unstable family environment in which she grew up and her suicide attempts as a teenager.
The host, who began her career in 1995 at CKVL alongside André Arthur, Yvon Pedneault and Claude Poirier, confided to Jean-Philippe Dion that she attributed her career advancements to a combination of circumstances and ” obligations”.
“I found myself in places where people resigned, someone needed to replace them. I never questioned whether it was really what I wanted to do… I think the sport loved me more than I loved it,” she told her ex-colleague. of Hi hello.
When her parents died, the host had an important realization during which she cleaned up her life in search of herself.
“It was a bit of an awareness of: ‘I’m always driving out of obligation, I’m always there to put out a fire, but who am I, if I’m no longer always in an emergency? to survive,” she asked herself.
“I had a beautiful castle, but the foundation was missing. I really had to dismantle the entire castle, which was not easy,” admitted Marie-Claude Savard. It would also be fifty years of age that would have given him the courage to assert himself.
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