Léa Salamé was Michel Drucker’s guest last weekend in “Vivement Dimanche”. Following a subject where the former radio colleague of the presenter of France 2’s “8 p.m.”, Nicolas Demorand, appeared, the journalist could not hide her emotion.
It must be said that Nicolas Demorand published a moving book last year, “Interior Night”, in which he reveals that he suffers from type 2 bipolar disorder. A mental illness which causes him periods of intense unrest. Which is currently the case. Nicolas Demorand will no longer be able to present the France Inter morning show and will host, at the start of the next school year, a new show on the weekend.
“Frankly, I didn’t think I’d be upset like that, but there…,” said Léa Salamé after the “Vivement Dimanche” report. Demorand, Elkabbach, Ardisson… I had the chance to meet them, to meet them closely. Ardisson, he encouraged me, at the end he gave me his signature gesture that I do on “What an era!”. I admired Ardisson, I learned with Jean-Pierre Elkabbach and I madly love Nicolas Demorand who is my friend, who is my colleague.
And added: “This book has shocked thousands of people. It sold 200,000 copies, it was a hit. But then it was hard to come back to work, after the book. After I leave, I think so too. There, he is rebuilding himself in this illness which will be his illness for his whole life, and he knows it.
“He will come back because he is a huge journalist, he had incredible outbursts. He’s an intellectual, he was a teacher before, he’s a philosopher… He has billions of things that half the journalists don’t have. Nicolas Demorand is someone extremely important to me. He’s my great friend. I am, we talk every week. He encouraged me, he was there for my debut on “20 Heures”… And he helped break a taboo on mental health and what he did was immense,” concluded Léa Salamé.
