Former iconic face of BFMTVPascale de la Tour du Pin left the news channel directed by Marc-Olivier Fogiel to join C8 this season. Recruited by Cyril Hanouna to become one of the show’s new columnists Do not touch My TVthe journalist also inherited her own program broadcast daily on the group’s channel Canal+just before TPMP. Baptized PAF, this new meeting deciphers the news from the media world every day. During her show, Pascale de la Tour du Pin regularly welcomes guests on set. Thursday September 14, 2023, the one who also presented the morning of LCI received the former presenter of The treasure map, Sylvain Augier. Present on C8 as part of the promotion of his book called I am coming back from farpublished on October 12, 2022, the old face of France 3 gave a moving testimony about his fight against bipolarity. An illness which was diagnosed to him after an episode of intense exaltation, followed by violent depression.
Sylvain Augier: “Bipolarity cannot be cured but it can be treated”
It was after consulting a psychiatrist that Sylvain Augier discovered that he had type 1 bipolar illness. “Suddenly I had to take care of myself, I had to heal and the proof with this book is that we can come back and heal ourselves”, explained the former host of The treasure mapwho wishes to deliver a message of hope through his testimony. “Bipolarity cannot be cured but it can be treated“, explained Sylvain Augier during his visit to PAF. The old face of France 3 later revealed that he almost ended his life by throwing himself under a train. “I was devastated, hence this TGV in front of which I stood telling myself: ‘It’s better to end it right away, it’s better to get rid of this very difficult suffering’, revealed Sylvain Augier, who finally decided to live for his family. “What is terrible about suicide is that it is the end of your suffering, the suffering that you want to make disappear, but it is the beginning of the suffering of others. When we love other people in the world, I think of course of my children and my wife, I couldn’t do that to them“he also added.