Marie-Sophie Lacarrau will find her way to the JT after a long absence. Affected by a serious eye infection, she had to live in the dark for several months.
The 1 p.m. presenter will be able to find her audience after five months of absence for health reasons. Marie-Sophie Lacarrau had to deal with a serious infection in her right eye. From Monday, May 16, the journalist will be able to take over the controls of the television news that she took over after the departure of Jean-Pierre Pernaut.
On the occasion of her return, she confided at length to the newspaper The Parisian, over these long months of convalescence. She was forced to put her job on hold, but also her social life. The 1 p.m. presenter suffered from a condition called “amoebic keratitis”. It is an infection of the cornea caused by amoebas, which are parasites that can be found in tap water. This is how the journalist explains the development of this infection. “The fatal combination was: lentils and tap water. The lens acts as a cover, the parasites settle in and attack. This eye disease is classified as rare and severe”details the presenter of the JT.
About her infection, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau spoke of the shock of the news and the upheaval that her daily life has experienced in recent months. “When you are hit by such an ordeal, it cuts your legs and you either dive or bounce higher. I bounce higher”, tells the journalist Parisian.
Marie-Sophie Lacarrau impatient to find viewers
After a long course of care involving surgery and difficult rehabilitation of her eye, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau was able to recover all her abilities. She had to wear sunglasses for a long time and she spent almost two months in the dark. “I suffered a lot. It is a disease that hurts a lot, like its treatments”, still remembers the presenter. “Today I smile. But it was a bad time”she admits.
But her last tests revealed that she was in a condition to return to the path of TV sets. The journalist is delighted to find her seat and her audience. ”I just want to find the viewers, to find the link that I had started to create with them. And who was stopped short”, confides Marie-Sophie Lacarrau to the Parisian.
Marie-Sophie Lacarrau has always been optimistic when she was affected by this rare disease which affects barely a hundred people a year in France. “Knowing that I’m back on the air on Monday is enough for my happiness”simply slips Marie-Sophie Lacarrau.