The emblematic presenter of the weather on TF1 delivered on her fight against the disease alongside her husband during an interview granted to our colleagues from Current Woman.
Catherine Laborde is one of the emblematic weather presenters on TF1. On January 1, 2017, it was with great emotion that the host had bid farewell to viewers in her last bulletin. The following year, the one who has long been the rain and shine on the first television channel was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Shortly after, it will finally be learned that the now 71-year-old woman actually suffers from Lewy body dementia.
In 2020, Catherine Laborde agreed to confide in her fight against the disease at the microphone of our colleagues from Seven to Eight. Since then, his appearances have become increasingly rare in the media. It is in particular her husband, Thomas Stern, who gives news of his wife for almost 5 years or even his sister.
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Catherine Laborde: “Fear is the approach of the end”
This Friday, January 27, 2023, the television host agreed to confide in the company of her husband to our colleagues from Current wife. Catherine Laborde talks unfiltered about her fight against the disease, explaining that the latter does not particularly require courage but above all “to hold on, not to crack, not to resign oneself”.
“We dive little by little into something very painful and then we go back up”, she explains to Femme Actuelle. And to add: “like in a roller coaster, poof, you go down again, and that’s hard to live with.” This fight against dementia with Lewy bodies, Catherine Laborde leads it as a couple.
Indeed, her husband is responsible for managing daily tasks in order to lighten the weight on the shoulders of this television woman. Size support. “I realize how complicated it is for him (…) it’s not a source of joy”, she admits. For his part, Thomas Stern does not hide the difficulties he has had to face since his wife is unwell. “Angers, we swallow them”explains the one who admits having already thought of “flee” in the face of the situation, without ever executing. Well surrounded, Catherine Laborde confides, however, that she fears death: “Fear is the approach of the end, it’s a banal fear. What helps me to hold on and not to resign myself is the importance we have of still being together”. A poignant testimony during which the former weather presenter took care to once again declare her love to her husband.