Present in the casting of The Islandthe survival show offered from this Tuesday, January 7 on M6, Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut confided that this participation was essential so that she could “wake up.“
It seems that being cut off from the world allows you to refocus on yourself. If the ten participants of the new season of The Islandoffered this Tuesday, January 7 at 9:10 p.m. on M6 are unanimous on this subject, Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut goes even further. “To survive, I had to think about myself. Something I no longer knew how to do“, she testifies. The ex-beauty queen took advantage of this adventure”unique” to find herself and to alleviate certain ills that had been gnawing at her since the death of her husband, Jean-Pierre Pernaut.
“I felt like a zombie“: Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut talks about her mental state before joining The Island
Always smiling when she appears on television, the 57-year-old woman was in reality hiding deep discomfort. “As everyone knows, I lost my husband. There really was half of my body that no longer belonged to me and was completely dead.“, she tells us. From the first minutes of the first episode that Tele-Leisure was able to see in preview, Tom and Lou’s mother will even burst into tears. “I no longer thought about myself at all. I felt like a zombie“, she continues. When Six and Endemol, the production company, contacted her, she did not hesitate and accepted the project. “I needed this survival project. I needed to wake up and tell myself that life goes on. I have children, whom I have no right to abandon, that life is beautiful and that my husband would be proud of me.”
“I told myself that I was there for me“: Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut confides in the “support” of her husband Jean-Pierre Pernaut on the set of The Island
Plunged into the difficult ordeal of survival, Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut admits that she nevertheless found a little support from her husband. “At the start, he accompanied me, but after the game, because it’s me who talks to him a lot and asks him for answers, but then, I told myself I was there for myself“, she tempers. She nevertheless specifies that she has not spent a single evening where she had no thought for her husband, but that her mind was less occupied than usual by Jean-Pierre Pernaut.I can’t say I forgot it, but it was so hard during the game that I thought about it a little less than when I was in Paris“, she concludes.
