2024 - It starts today: why Wednesday's show was quietly canceled

Faced with the controversy generated by the theme of the show on Wednesday May 4, France 2 decided to deprogram this issue of Ca begins today.

Followers of the testimonial program presented by Faustine Bollaert will not be able to find their program on France 2 this Wednesday, May 4. In question, a exceptional deprogramming of It starts today, after strong reactions on social networks. It all started when a sequence of the show devoted to the theme of “Healing by freeing oneself from our ancestors” burst onto Twitter around April 30. While the stories of the guests usually remain concrete and make it possible to address various social issues, the intervention of the writer Natacha Calestreme on the “psychogenealogy” and the transmission of trauma, was rather oriented towards the esoteric. Addressing scientific and psychological issues such as miscarriages or endometriosis through the prism of personal development, the author and her words have been the subject of a lively controversy.

One sentence in particular made Internet users react. After Natacha Calestrémé’s explanation of an alleged heredity of miscarriages, pain and “guilt“What can such dramas cause in women of the same family, a guest wished to speak about her own experience:”yes completely, that’s what I was also told that endometriosis was a priori a disease of self-sabotage“, she agreed. Enough to make more than one affected by this still too underdiagnosed gynecological disease jump, which would affect nearly 10% of women of childbearing age.

France 2 cancels the program

Faced with a wave of indignation, France 2 simply chose not to broadcast the show. The news was notably shared on Twitter on May 3 by columnist and essayist Tristan Mendès. The latter had, like other Internet users, written to the chain concerning the extract shared on the networks. The France 2 program management claims to have “we acknowledged” dissatisfaction, before announcing his decision. The psychogenealogy, a “therapeutic” approach to trauma and pathologies claimed by Natacha Calestrémé, remains a controversial theory. As Le Figaro already explained in 2018, the Center Against Mind Control (CCMM) had warned, in 2016, against this theory which is not insignificant.

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Natacha Calestreme
In question, a controversy sparked by the remarks made on set.

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Natacha Calestreme
Invited to speak of “psychogenealogy”, the writer Natacha Calestrémé affirms that the traumas linked to miscarriages are hereditary.

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Natacha Calestreme
The author specializing in well-being speaks of “souls”.

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It starts today
A young woman calls endometriosis “self-sabotage”.

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Natacha Calestreme
This excerpt from the show caused many Internet users to react.

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France 2 deprogram It starts today
The channel agreed on May 3 to deprogram It starts today in the face of indignant reactions.

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Faustine Bollaert
It starts today will therefore not be broadcast on Friday, May 4.

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Faustine Bollaert
At the helm of the society magazine since 2017, Faustine Bollaert did not react.

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Faustine Bollaert
The facilitator brings together several witnesses every day of the week in order to discuss a wide variety of social issues without constraints.