The emotion was palpable on the set of C8, Tuesday March 7, 2023, with the overwhelming testimony of Manon. This single mother explained why she could no longer make ends meet in the face of rising prices for various products.
This is undoubtedly the difficult situation of many French people. On the set of Do not touch My TVTuesday March 7, 2023, Cyril Hanouna wanted to give the prole to Manon, a mother who can no longer make ends meet. She explained living alone with her son. “I earn 900 euros, I have between 500 and 600 euros in bills, not counting my son’s crèche, which I pay separately. I’m separated, I’ve been raising him since he was born. At first I was getting by, I could give him the things a child needs, but now the prices are going up, the electricity bills are going up, I saw myself doubling my gas bill this winter so I used to manage to get by on my own with a child, but now it’s getting harder and harder“, she said before bursting into tears on the set.
The reason: she followed government recommendations to heat her living room to 19 degrees, but her son contracted pneumonia. “I saw my son hooked up in the hospital, not knowing if he was going to have a respiratory arrest“, she continued with a trembling voice. To allow her son to eat at all meals, she revealed to sacrifice herself. A situation that made him very unhappy.
Manon has already thought about committing suicide
“I am ashamed. There are some in my family who don’t know but I deprive myself because I prefer to give my steak to my son. I almost combined two jobs, I wanted to find a night job but my mother reasoned with me“, she continued before addressing Emmanuel Macron directly. “I would like to know what does Macron do? He doesn’t think of me, Manon, with my son James, no he doesn’t care. He sleeps well with his wife, he has his little heating, his little slippers when he gets out of bed. I don’t have all that! I curdle my ass when I go out at 7 in the morning“, she launched again before ensuring that she had already imagined committing suicide to put an end to her suffering.