The emblematic presenter of the weather on TF1 Catherine Laborde left us at the age of 73. Her husband, her daughters and grandchildren, her health problems, her end of life: return to the last moments of Catherine Laborde.
Catherine Laborde, suffering from Lewy’s body disease, died at 73, we learned on January 28. “”The teams of the TF1 group share the trouble and the sorrow of their family, their relatives and pay tribute to the one who accompanied the French for more than 28 years“, read in a press release published by the first channel. The former presenter of the weather is”serenely“In his house on the island of Yeu, according to his sister Françoise.
Who were her husband and two daughters?
Born May 8, 1951 in Bordeaux, Catherine Laborde has been able to count in recent years on the support of her two daughters: Gabrielle, born in 1987 and Pia, born in 1990. “The house is still full of those she loves and who love her “, Could we read in the pages of Paris Match in 2020. Her eldest daughter is the mother of a little boy, Saul, who is now 5 years old. “”She is completely gaga “, Makes Thomas Stern, her husband. In 2020, her second daughter was also pregnant as well as her husband’s daughter. “Unconsciously, we feel, in the family, that life must take over”, explains the former presenter.
Since 2013, she was married to Thomas Stern, advertiser, former professor and author. In one of their common book The sweet joy of being deceivedshe recounts his infidelities, separations and her abortion. “”I rely a lot on my two daughters and my husband, I sometimes do not realize how much it can weigh. I’m afraid of being a weight for them, it’s terrible … I have a daughter who lives in the Gers and another who is a midwife at Foch hospital in Paris. If there is one that I do not spare, it is my husband. But it’s normal, because he chose me, unlike my daughters, who did not ask for anything!“, she confided to TV leisure.
What disease has she suffered from?
The presenter suffered from Lewy’s body disease, a mixture of Parkinson and Alzheimer’s. “”There are days with it, and days without. Some days are really difficult and then, completely unexpectedly, I will feel wonderfully well the next day. I then find everything beautiful and everything makes me smile. When I’m in pain, I hang on thinking about these days of pleasure that will happen “confided Catherine Laborde, victim of tremors and loss of balance at this time of the disease. “”I trip at least once a day. But it is not only the body that gradually gets rid of. I also have the impression of being much more emotional than before“.
Her husband was also worried about certain evocative signs in the show It starts today At the end of 2023: “Catherine has a slowness disease but also a neurodegenerative disease, a cocktail between Alzheimer’s, Parkinson, there are Motor disorders, language, anxiety attacks, hallucinations, it’s a strong painting … “, He confided to Faustine Bollaert. “She has just entered a phase where she has trouble expressing himself, she understands what she is told but she has a lot of trouble formulating things and therefore communication becomes extremely complicated”.
Where did she end her life?
Catherine Laborde was able to count on the support of her husband until the end in their house in Vendée, on the island of Yeu. “”I think I never felt his man as much as in being his caregiver. I think that the difference between a caregiver and a caregiver is that the disease exists for both, but the helpful always seeks the person in the patient, even if he has to feed him with memories, bring him back, bring him back, bring him back, revive him reincarnate it. We cannot do otherwise except a break set “, explained her husband even if he also tackled the desire to “flee this role“In complicated moments.
Françoise Laborde’s sister was also afraid of the end: “Fear is the approach of the end, it is a banal fear. What helps me to hold and not to resign myself is the importance that we have to be still together (…) This is where I realize the luck I have to have met this man. My strength is love. It’s undeniable “, she explained in an interview for Current woman.
Why did she stop the weather?
On January 1, 2017, TF1’s speaker pronounces her last words: “You will forget me, me not. I love you”. In an interview for RTLshe explains that this departure is her choice: “This is my decision. I am not saying that it is my will but a desire “.
She also specifies that “The click arrived when, I saw in this place that I love so much, TF1, a bunch of young people of which I could have been the mother, even the grandmother”. After her moving farewell on TV and her death, Catherine did not leave the hearts of the French and is not about to leave him.
