Spotted in 2020 in the 15th season of “L’Amour est dans le pré” on M6, Cathy, and her poignant family story, left their mark. After five years of fighting, the farmer finally made a radical decision.
Cathy, emblematic farmer of the fifteenth season of Love is in the meadowthe flagship M6 show hosted by Karine Le Marchand, made a resounding announcement. Asked by Actu.frshe spoke of the immense challenge that her professional life represents. And she made a radical decision.
Cathy (Love is in the meadow) exhausted: “Psychologically, I can’t anymore”
Exhausted by her pace of work, and still marked by the tragedy which upset her family balance, the farmer announced that she was throwing in the towel and putting her wine farm up for sale. It must be said that life has not spared the winemaker, revealed to the general public in 2020, on M6. In 2016, she was struck by tragedy: her father, faced with serious financial problems, killed himself on his farm. And it was Cathy who discovered it in the middle of her vines.
If she first wanted to pay tribute to her father, Cathy finally arrived at the end of the process. Now that the operation is out of the impasse, she wishes to pass on her wine estate. “I fought to bring the vineyard back to life. Now that I have succeeded, it really has to stop, psychologically I can’t anymore. I prefer to sell everything rather than screw myself up. (…) What I have in me is something that I should not have experienced and that no one should experience”she said.
Cathy (Love is in the meadow): “I’m going to take a year off.”
Asked about her future plans, Cathy made no secret: “If I manage to sell the property I think I will take a year off and go around the world to breathe and then I wanted to do a Tour de France by bike”. But far from the idea of leaving her native region where her mother and daughter still live: “I will stay here, yes, I am so established. I have my home, my mother and my daughter who are here, so I will stay”.
Moreover, the one who attempted the adventure Love is in the meadow in 2020 does not close the door to agriculture. If the buyers of her property in Saint-Christoly-Médoc wish, she could very well be their agricultural employee. “It’s imbued in me actually”she assured. And for her to conclude: “It’s very complicated to live with that in my head. (…) Courage to all farmers, let’s not be ashamed of no longer being able to do our work”.
