We can never say it enough: Marie-Claude Barrette has the gift of putting her guests at ease and listening to them open up. Here are some moments that aroused emotion in us, while listening to his podcast, Open your gamein 2024.
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Maxim Roy
In the middle of her interview with Marie-Claude, the actress was questioned about her relationship with forgiveness. She then recalled a very specific memory with her father, 20 years ago, when he fell ill. Describing him as a “very hard and very demanding” man, she then suggested he undergo therapy, something he accepted and continued throughout his illness. “He learned to express himself, he learned to say ‘I love you,’ he learned to ask for forgiveness. He asked me for forgiveness.” Moved, her eyes watered as she mentioned that her father’s therapy had resolved many things in their relationship. “He became the father I had dreamed of having that year.”
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Mel Charlot
It was a moment of great vulnerability that Mel Charlot experienced alongside Marie-Claude Barrette last fall, notably by addressing motherhood, her romantic relationship, her faith, self-esteem, the importance of representation and the mourning of her mother, which led her to have dark thoughts. Indeed, speaking about the benefits of therapy and self-acceptance, Mel Charlot opened up about this great loss, which occurred in her life in 2015, due to cancer. When the host asked her if she thought about dying, she replied this:
“Yes, I thought about it, yes. This is the first time I’ve said it, but I’ve thought about it often because it was such a shock. I didn’t think I would lose my mother so soon. Also, everything that happened afterwards — there was a change in my friends, there was a change in my family, we are such a big family. I felt that, suddenly, we separated. Everyone took their side, and that’s normal; death affects people so differently. But at that time, I didn’t see that yet. Now, with hindsight and therapy — I’m going to continue to say it — I can see that. But it was very difficult for me. I wasn’t sure I wanted to continue. (…) »
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Martin Vachon
It is in the episode broadcast on Monday November 4 that we can hear Martin Vachon open up his game. If he spoke in particular about his relationship with the eyes of others, about life as a couple and about family life, the segment which most appealed to him emotionally was when he spoke about his relationship with his elders. -parents.
“Which person has made a difference in your life?” the host asked her during the green card segment.
“The image that instinctively came to my mind was my grandfather,” replied Martin Vachon. He then explained why this man had such importance in his life, and expressed his admiration for him.
“There are often characters in my shows who keep the name Raymond or Rachel [prénoms de ses grands-parents]…Ayoye. I don’t know why it affects me [montée d’émotions]. I don’t want to forget them, it seems. I really liked them a lot. It was a bit chaotic, my childhood with my parents. And my grandparents were synonymous with something healthy, something beautiful. It’s just love. I talk to them every evening (…) They are my guardian angels.”
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Arnaud Soly
During his presence behind the microphone, the comedian opened up about the fertility issues that he and his partner went through before having their first daughter, Romane, now four years old. The host of Club Soly and his partner went through six rounds of artificial insemination before obtaining a first positive result, he said. The couple had previously tried for two years before consulting the fertility clinic at CHU Sainte-Justine.
“My girlfriend had lost her ovulation cycle. Fortunately, long live technology, long live science! We started insemination. The success rate is quite good. We start the insemination once, twice, three times, four times, five times, it doesn’t work…”, he told Marie-Claude Barrette, admitting to having wondered if they ‘were just not “due” to have children.
“We were in Sainte-Justine several times a week for a year. This is to see if the follicles are good enough to do the insemination. It’s an inexact science. From one cycle to the next, there are enough eggs or not enough, we ship a month. There, your body is tired…”, continued the comedian, indicating that their hope yo-yoed with each attempt.
When the result of a pregnancy test finally turned out to be positive, the couple took a while to realize it, said Arnaud Soly, confident that this ordeal had ultimately united them, because they had lived together. For their second daughter, however, the young parents experienced no such difficulty, even though the comedian’s partner did not know that she was pregnant.
“My girlfriend went to the hospital to reopen the file, knowing that it was going to take a long time. They took a blood test and told him: ‘That won’t be necessary, you’re pregnant,’” he said, smiling.
(Via Frédérique de Simone)
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Félix-Antoine Tremblay
It was by addressing her relationship with her ex-boyfriend and her desire for intimacy, during the red card section, that Félix-Antoine Tremblay said that being a dad is “[son] biggest dream”:
“I always tell myself that I didn’t get as much from my mother, that I don’t have as much respect and admiration for her and for what she did in her life, to the height of her abilities , so as not to try to perpetuate this in my turn,” he explained to the host.
If the actor was afraid to talk about it before because of possible judgments, he now wants to open up on the subject, with the aim of making it “easier”, both for him and for others.
He then explains that he currently has both feet in the process and that the system is particularly complex for same-sex couples who want to be parents, particularly men, which spreads out the family project over time.
The host of Ideas of grandeur in my backyard affirmed that “to embark on these steps, whatever they may be, it is considered, it is desired”.
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