Former sports journalist Marie-Claude Savard spoke with an open heart on Sunday evening The true natureparticularly the unstable family environment in which she grew up and her suicide attempts as a teenager.
The presenter, who began her career in 1995 at CKVL alongside André Arthur, Yvon Pedneault and Claude Poirier, confided to Jean-Philippe Dion that she attributed her career advancement to a combination of circumstances and commitments.
“I've been in places where people resigned and someone had to replace them. I never questioned whether it was really what I wanted to do… I think the sport loved me more than I loved myself,” she told her ex-colleague from Hello Hello.
When her parents died, the host had an important realization that left her cleaning up her life in search of herself.
“It was a little bit of an awareness of, 'I'm always driving out of a sense of duty, I'm always there to put out a fire, but who am I if I'm not always in an emergency situation anymore? to survive,” she wondered.
“I had a beautiful castle, but the foundation was missing. I really had to dismantle the entire castle, which was not easy,” admitted Marie-Claude Savard. Even being fifty years old would have given him the courage to assert himself.
True Nature is presented Sundays at 9 p.m. and can be seen on TVA+.
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