Is it because her eldest had just been the target of a meme that Françoise Laborde mentioned, Tuesday April 9, 2024, in the show At Jordan de Luxe (C8), the state of health of his sister Catherine?
Perhaps not, especially since she has been doing it regularly since 2017 and the public withdrawal of the former Weather presenter, suffering from Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, “a mixture of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s,” reports Le Figaro.
“His memory and balance are failing him”
According to Françoise Laborde, her sister Catherine is doing “as well as possible” and now lives on Île d’Yeu, in Vendée. “His illness is very complicated, his memory and balance are lacking and words don’t always come to him,” she explains. But the progression of his illness is rather slow, which is reassuring.”
The journalist then assured that Catherine Laborde’s illness required “permanent supervision”, by her family or a caregiver. “She can’t be alone for a second, she might have panic attacks or fall,” she explained.
A “difficult to live with” illness
In 2023, Catherine Laborde described the cognitive disorders of which she is now a victim. Current wife : “We plunge little by little into something very painful and then we come back up. It’s quite difficult to live with,” she confided.
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Today, the one whose smile and great energy we remember is experiencing delicate moments. But she always receives expressions of sympathy which “carry” her, according to her sister. “I don’t think she misses television, but the fact of feeling that she is still in the hearts of the public touches her a lot,” she concludes.