Faced with a cruel email, a journalist responded live and the video went viral. No, she’s not pregnant, she had uterine cancer…
His well-felt response went around the world. A journalist wanted to respond live to a derogatory email received about her choice of on-air outfit. The author will surely remember it for a very long time… Like the photos of a dad during childbirth, the video of Leslie Horton’s intervention has gone viral.
Canadian journalist from Global News, she was sent a message that made her angry. This December 5, 2023, she read it on the air: “Congratulations on your pregnancy. If you wear old bus driver pants, you should expect emails like this”. Quite annoyed, the host then declared: “So thank you for that. No, I’m not pregnant. I actually lost my uterus to cancer last year“. An illness which also affected the singer Julie Piétri, and which is screened up to a certain age.
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Live, Leslie Horton continued her remarks: “This is what women my age look like. So if this offends you, that’s too bad.”. In post since 1995, the 59-year-old journalist is experienced and usually imperturbable, but this viewer went beyond the limits for her. “Think about the emails you send”, she summarizes.
She told the site Vancouver Island Free Daily that the same man had already sent him messages “bad guys” for the past four years. “Clearly not a fan and that’s okay”, she says, but many women in this sector receive this type of email. In addition, she had shared the news of her cancer when she took a break in January 2022. She therefore found this email very cruel, deliberately seeking to hurt her: “You don’t have to tell me I have a belly. I know I have a belly. And guess what ? Gray hair and wrinkles too”. An intervention which was not planned but which had a strong response. Actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Pfeiffer notably reacted to his video on social networks.
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