Invited to the show It starts today, presented by Faustine Bollaert on Friday March 31, 2023 on France 2, journalist Elsa Wolinski returned to her addiction to cocaine when she was young.
Emblematic face of the France Télévisions group since its recruitment from M6, Faustine Bollaert presents daily the program entitled Ça commence today since 2017 on France 2. Within this program, the facilitator receives several guests every day who come to give testimony on their different experiences. At the controls of a new unpublished number broadcast live on the public channel Friday, March 31, 2023Faustine Bollaert hosted three personalities on her set, who agreed to talk on the air their problems of depression, bipolar disorder, or addiction.
Among the host’s three guests that day, France 2 viewers were able to discover the journalist Elsa Wolinski. Officer in the magazine Point of viewthe daughter of the famous French designer Georges Wolinski, who was assassinated in the terrorist attack that targeted Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, revealed that she had developed a cocaine addiction during her youth. “When I started using cocaine, I was 20 years old. I loved the night, the party… I loved movies that talk about nightclubs, thugs, drugs… I was on it. And after, I had very bad company“, she explained.
Elsa Wolinski: “I started taking drugs from 12 p.m.”
“I did cocaine for twelve or fifteen years, every day. I never liked doing drugs, really. I think I was taking drugs only to die, to choke, and I was fasting until 11 o’clock. I started taking drugs from 12 p.m.“, also added the one who also officiates as a columnist in the program Bel et bien on France 2. It was only after having been “put on antidepressants“, that Elsa Wolinski managed to quit cocaine.”I stopped taking it. I had been taking it for fifteen years. I don’t know why I stopped. I could not any more“, she indicated, before discussing the role played by the death of her mother in this decision. “When I saw my mother dead, I said to myself: ‘But, I saw myself with my antidepressants’. When my mother died at the clinic, I brought her little baby doll to her so that she could be with her baby in her coffin (…) And I said to myself: ‘No ! I don’t want this picture!’“, pointed out the journalist.