Singer Natasha St-Pier was a victim of depression a few years ago and agreed to return to the subject in “A Sunday in the countryside”.
On March 16, Natasha St-Pier was invited to the show of Frédéric Lopez, A Sunday in the countryside. The opportunity for the Quebec singer now 44 years old to tell her past experience of Eurovision, a competition currently under the spotlight since Louane recently announced her participation with an unprecedented title: Mom.
Why did Natasha St-Pierre do a depression?
It was indeed in 2001 that the former candidate of Dance with stars represented France at Eurovision with the song I only have my soul. Arrived in 4th position in the final classification, a very honorable place, Natasha St-Pierre experienced very badly what she then considered a failure. And for good reason, she thought she had disappointed her parents, stayed in Canada, and the French.
But when she returns to French soil, it is not and she makes a triumphant return to the media. Widely applauded for its performance, it gradually sinks into depression. “Because I say to myself: ‘Everyone will hate me. Already I am not French, why they chose a Canadian to represent France? In addition I plant myself. I will not be welcomed with roses'”she explained on France 2.
And Natasha St-Pierre to add: “And on the contrary, people welcome me as if I had won. It is great. And there it consoles me a little. And I start to do lots of interviews, to be everywhere, to work a lot. But I am still doing a depression because too much work. And I am not accompanied to live it all”.
Natasha St-Pierre tells of his descent into hell
The interpreter of the tubes You will find, an angel knocks on my door or Die tomorrow lived a very difficult period. “My doctor gives me the choice: either I am hospitalized, or I go back to my parents. So I go back to my parents”detailed the one who has since become the mother of Bixente, a little boy she had with her ex-French ex-husband, the firefighter Grégory Quillacq.
And to the one who shares her life today with pianist Vincent Bidal to admit: “And I remember at that time that I am so bad, I can not come across other people so much more, that when it sounds the door, I go to my parents’ room, but even in the room I am afraid, I hide under the bed“A depressive episode that she has been released. Now, Natasha St-Pierre has even become a yoga teacher, a discipline that helps her a lot on a daily basis.
