Marie-Mai was on the set of “Everybody’s Talking About It” this Sunday, February 19th to discuss her many current and future projects. Among them is the documentary film Accro: Addiction Disorders, which is now available on the Crave platform.
This was an opportunity for Guy A. Lepage to ask his guest about his own experiences with addiction, specifically alcohol and drugs.
A gap that Marie-Mai was able to close in time thanks to her participation in the Star Académie in 2003.
“I was lucky because I was so young when I started touching it that I picked it up easily,” she said.
“I was 18 when I did Star Académie, so for a long time I wondered what it would have been like if I hadn’t had my passion. The truth is I didn’t go that far in the right direction. I liked to go out and feel high. And I quickly realized that I needed to feel like I belonged more than anything because I never felt like I belonged. »
Marie-Mai went on to explain that music came into her life at the best time imaginable, to become an outlet and helped her not to “become a prisoner of [ses] emotions”.
Unfortunately for the singer-songwriter, that addiction was replaced by another.
“I’d be lying if I said I’ve never been addicted to the love of the audience and the feeling you get when you’re on stage,” she said.
“At some point it becomes very fragile, this business, because once it is taken away from you, where is its value? And I, I hit that wall. I was exhausted and it wasn’t enough anymore and I had no choice but to rebuild, rebuild and ask what I was outside of. »
Marie-Mai claimed to have freed herself from this need, while a contrary scenario could have prevented her from returning to music.
“I take advantage of it, I like doing shows. I’m doing it for the right reasons. This is also the path to self-healing,” she concluded.
Remember that Marie-Mai recently revealed the first snippet of her next album. All details here.