On February 1, 2022, Thierry Ardisson was the guest of the show Direct access, on France Bleu. The 73-year-old presenter came to promote his new show on France 2 called The hotel of time. A program in which he interviews deceased personalities (including Jean Gabin and Dalida), in particular with the “Face Retriever” technology. But he did not escape personal questions, the opportunity to return to a very difficult period of his life, during which drugs were very present.
It is sincere and without filter that Thierry Ardisson confided on the airwaves of France Bleu on his past as a drug user. In the 1960s, Audrey-Crespo Mara’s husband was a record store and “discovered at night” in “shady places” in Cannes in particular. It was during this period that he tested cocaine and heroin. “Honestly, we were the first generation to have the drug over the counter. Before us, drugs, heroin, were reserved for Afro-American jazzmen. No one took it. Some took opium, but it wasn’t common“, he remembered in Direct Access.
At the time, no one was warned of the negative consequences that could arise as a result of this consumption, while today, it is clearly stated that “the hero is very hard to get out of it“or that cocaine”eats the white part of the brain“. Like many people, he so threw himself head first. Fortunately, the man in black ended up getting away with it. Overnight, he made the choice to stop everything. “Corn it’s the hardest thing i’ve done in my life. The hero, at the beginning, we take it to be good, then after a while we take it to not be bad“, however, he pointed out.
If most people manage to get their heads above water by taking methadone in particular (like the candidate of Large Families Amandine Pellissard), Thierry Ardisson did not wish “medicalize the thing“.”I left France, I didn’t want to medicalize the thing. I didn’t want to go to the hospital to take methadone and all that. I didn’t want to consider myself ill, which unfortunately was the case. I went to the United States in a place where I was sure not to find any. But I shit for three months“he concluded the subject.
Thierry Ardisson also confided in the woman of his life Audrey Crespo-Mara. A “great girl” he met twelve years ago. “She does a lot for my happiness, really she is exceptional“, he said. Confidences that will certainly touch the presenter of the TF1 group in the heart.