It's already been seven years since Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine has been at the helm of C to you. After Alessandra Sublet, between 2009 and 2013, and Anne-Sophie Lapix, between 2013 and 2017, the host found her place there and for now, despite rumors and murky statements, she does not intend to let go. The 16th season of the program actually began at the beginning of September with her. However, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine remains lucid about her future and the possibility that everything will stop. She even prepares for it, like everything in life. “I do everything to avoid disappointments by mentally preparing myself. I put myself in battle order“, she declared in 2018 for Psychologies Magazine.
Our colleagues then asked her where this very particular way of seeing existence came from and the main interested party then remembered:of a significant episode“. “At 10 years old, I was a very pious little girl. One evening, in 1981, while I was saying my prayers before going to bed, I heard a voice saying to me: 'You're going to die on May 11, 1982!' I went down in fear to see my father who, after listening to me, dismissed my case – 'Go say a prayer!' – instead of reassuring myself with 'Of course it won't happen!' I lived for a year in the terror of May 11, 1982. I told myself that I wouldn't survive my older sister Véronique's birthday.born on May 13“, she reported.
Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine “thinks about death every day”
It was with her friends from the Legion of Honor that Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine then tried to find comfort. But, on the eve of this famous May 11, fear was more present than ever. “The night of May 10, I wanted to resist sleeping. I asked my friends to watch over me in the dormitory“, confided Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine who still ended up falling asleep. And as we can see today, she woke up well the next day.
Nevertheless, this story will have greatly shaped her. “Seriously, it's a fairly foundational episode in my mental functioning and in the way I view existence. Death is a reality. I think of her every day. This is my way of preparing for it. But I don't drag this thought around like a ball and chain. I am naturally happy. Getting up in the morning is a joy“, she assured. A taste for life and a contagious good humor that she shares every evening in C to you with viewers and guests.