After a long period of silence, Catherine Laborde finally gives her news. Or rather her husband, Thomas Stern, who confided in Faustine Bollaert on the show It starts todaybroadcast this Tuesday, October 4 on France 2. The theme of the day: “Illness came to test the strength of their love“. A strong and poignant subject for which several couples came to testify and tell their personal experience, and among them, the husband of the one who made rain and shine on TF1 for nearly 30 years. Not without emotion, he did not hesitate to reveal his current complicated daily life with his famous sick wife.There I spend a period which is a little harder than when we made the book(sick love published in 2020)”, he explained, before specifying: “It’s a cocktail between Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, where there are motor disorders, language disorders, anxiety attacks, hallucinations. It’s a tough painting“.
A situation much more difficult as time passes since the state of health of Catherine Laborde continues to deteriorate slowly. Thomas Stern thus clarified that if it’s harder at the moment it’s because “what has entered a phase where it is difficult to speak out“.”That is to say, she understands what is said to her but she has a lot of trouble formulating things. So communication becomes extremely difficult“, recognized the 74-year-old man. Touched, Faustine Bollaert asked Thomas: “Do you still feel like her man or do you no longer feel like her helper?“.”I don’t think I’ve ever felt more like her man than in being her helper.“, Nicely replied Thomas Stern. An interview full of emotions.
Lewy body disease
It was in 2017 that Catherine Laborde left her position as madam weather at TF1 after being diagnosed 3 years earlier, suffering from dementia with Lewy bodies. A terrible disease, combining symptoms of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Since then, the sister of journalist and writer Françoise Laborde has disappeared from the radar in order to devote herself to her health. In an interview with seven to eight in 2018, she had tried to explain with her words what her new daily life represented with this disease which turned her life upside down: “I imagine sometimes having an aquarium on my head with goldfish constantly spinning“. Moments of confusion at the beginning, to finally find it difficult to express themselves… A deteriorated state of health, but fortunately Catherine Laborde can count on her husband, who as she said, “will never stop to keep making her laugh because it’s essential“.