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Léa Salamé would have received tens of thousands of messages after a remark to the comedian Artus about her quitting alcohol. Pleading a “joke”, the host returned on Saturday evening in “Quelle époque” to the extent of the controversy.
It would be a simple “valve […] misinterpreted”. The host of “Quelle Époque” returned on Saturday evening to her comments made last week to the comedian Artus, on her giving up alcohol and cigarettes. “You have become boring”, he she retorted, a “joke” which triggered a “tsunami” of reactions according to her.
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For Léa Salamé, these comments were in no way “an apology for alcohol”. Back on the set of “Belle Époque” this Saturday, the journalist quips: “I’ll stop with the jokes, I’ll leave them to you. I don’t know how to do it, and when you don’t know how to do it, you don’t do it.”
“It made me think.”
Then, the host adds that “it made me think. And we said with our team that this posed a real question, that it opened a real social debate, a substantive subject.” A little later in the show, ten minutes were devoted to the dangers of alcohol consumption with guest, emergency doctor Gérald Kierzek.
The journalist also admitted having “repeated something franchouillard” and felt that “we must not trivialize” the dangers of alcohol.
