During the shooting of his documentary series imperfectJulie Bélanger admits to having been “challenged in the tabarouette”.
The TVA host of It Ends Well The Week, who is also a content producer, has left entertainment with this new project, this time to focus on the human, on the light after exams and on learning, which weathers the storms has left.
After her burnout in her mid-thirties and her brother’s depression a few years later, Julie Bélanger, who nevertheless has a discreet nature, felt an almost emotional need to talk about it and do it unfiltered; going there without bullshit, as she puts it.
“I was really looking for meaning,” the presenter explained to the media on Monday at the presentation of the first episodes of “Imparfaite”, adding that this series was a real dive for her, but the most beautiful one she allowed herself to do it.
Opening the doors of her home—and also the door to her friendship with Mélanie Maynard, which began with love at first sight and ended in a fishtail 14 years ago—she felt like she was really getting to the bottom Also, she had to commit.
“I have no choice but to get so wet if I really want people to talk about it. Without that, it stays on the surface. It will remain an intellectual discourse on forgiveness [par exemple]’ she then raised.
“There are many issues that we all discuss in our private lives but don’t address in public life, why? In fact, why not?” she asked during the roundtable attended by the QMI agency.
Among these topics, the presenter addresses in particular the female friendship with Ingrid Falaise, who met her in the parking lot of a convent when they went to a closed therapy, non-motherhood with Geneviève Brouillette, depression with his family, panic attacks with José Gaudet , how to bouncing back after an ordeal with Maripier Morin and Dominique Bertrand, learning to love yourself with Michel Charette and, of course, forgiveness with Mélanie Maynard.
Forgiveness and reconciliation after 14 years of brooding
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Mélanie Maynard and Julie Bélanger (from behind) forgive each other in new documentary series Imparfaite.
Julie Bélanger doesn’t hide it, she has harbored a 14-year grudge against her former Two Girls in the Morning co-host Mélanie Maynard, TVA’s new Sucré Salé host. The two women, who loved each other deeply, became rivals almost overnight. Although they complemented each other, their friendship at the time had brought to light old childhood wounds that they were confronted with. But it is this confrontation that allows them to work on themselves and make peace with their demons.
“I hurt you because I didn’t have the sensitivity at the time to understand what you were going through. […] “I couldn’t see all that sensitivity and that kindness that you brought with you as a plus, as a complement,” confided in particular Mélanie Maynard, who at the time had not yet been diagnosed with ADHD. .
“I was just trying to get you to like me somewhere. I said to myself: If I’m perfect, nobody can criticize me. It didn’t work out for you. So everything broke. And it had to break. You really were a catalyst for my “healing” […] it was even necessary,” replied Julie Bélanger, before asking her forgiveness for “chewing her dirty old stockings” for far too long.
The animator, who will be celebrating her 50th birthday next year, wants to keep exploring new professional avenues. She’s not shutting the door on a career in production.
Impafaite is available in eight episodes directed by Maude Éthier-Boutet and available on Vrai.