After five months of absence following a severe eye infection, the journalist found her smile and her armchair at 1 p.m. on TF1, Monday to Thursday. Very first impressions after a long-awaited return.
In what state of mind were you a few seconds before returning to the antenna, Monday, May 16?
Marie-Sophie Lacarrau: I was super impatient. From six o’clock in the morning, when my alarm clock rang, I could have gone straight there! It was my big day, my back to school. There was a lack! Many of us had imagined that this journal was going to be that of reunions and it was the case. I was delighted to find the teams, the public, the correspondents who all gave it back to me. After all the messages I received, it seemed normal to launch my first report by taking news from viewers. It was my little nod to return the favor to them.
You who have spent two months in the dark, how did you manage the intensive lighting on set?
The hardest part was finding the right lighting on set. The settings were quite long. After two very hard months in the dark, my eye was still unable to withstand too strong a light. During the ten days preceding my return, we did tests gradually. When we found a light intensity that was both satisfactory for the image and acceptable for my eye, I knew I was finally going to be able to get out of the tunnel!
If you had to send a single message about this disease, amoebic keratitis, what would it be?
Continue to wear contact lenses, but above all, do not relax your vigilance. Continue to observe the advice you were given at the beginning: do not shower with your contact lenses, do not rinse your case with water without wiping it. The smallest drop can let in parasites that can cling to the glass and penetrate the cornea. If there is a risk of losing sight with this disease, I was lucky to be diagnosed very quickly and taken care of by ultra-competent teams and the Professor Gabison at the Rothschild Foundation.
What times of the day did you cling to to transition from day to day?
At the rhythm of the children’s school (she has two boys, editor’s note). In spite of everything, you had to get up to see them before they left, be there at noon when they came back, if that was the case, and at the end of the day too.
The pain did not spare you. Is this still the case?
No, that’s all over! I am still under surveillance, but I no longer suffer at all. I am liberated!
No pun intended, has your view of the world changed?
Like all people who have gone through difficult times, we put a lot of things into perspective. We didn’t sink, so we inevitably come out stronger, with a terrible bulimia to take advantage of everything! Although being a current affairs newspaper, 1 p.m.,we make it a point of honor not to forget to see – precisely! – beautiful things.
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