His remark to the actor Artus shocked many viewers, and sparked a lot of comments on social networks. When the director, invited on April 27 on the set of the show What eraon France 2to talk about his film A little something extrahad indicated that he had stopped cigarettes and alcohol, two addictive products which fueled his anxieties, Léa Salamé replied with a smile: “Ah, you have become boring”. A reaction which sparked heated controversy.
“It was a waste”
“The valves, I’ll stop, I’ll leave them to you [s’adressant à l’un des humoristes de l’équipe, Paul de Saint Sernin]. I don’t know how to do it, and when you don’t know how to do it, you don’t do it.”, began the journalist at the very beginning of the show, Saturday May 4. Léa Salamé assures that she wanted to make a “joke”, “certainly not an apology for alcohol”.
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But the sentence struck a chord. “Fuck you”Artus replied spontaneously, deploring a reaction “very French”, who wants us to congratulate a user who stops using cocaine but to cast shame on people who decide to stop drinking. The actor has since called her, she said. “He was sorry for the extent of the criticism” : “He told me: I don’t understand, it was a joke”. Beyond the guests on set, the presenter said she received tens of thousands of reactions.
41,000 deaths each year
“It made me think.”declared Léa Salamé, who admitted having taken up a commonplace, “something French”. The journalist concluded her speech, promising that she would no longer make jokes about drinking alcohol, a “scourge” And “immense suffering” for addicted people.
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To support these remarks, the show team invited a specialist on set, emergency doctor Gérald Kierzek. He recalled that 41,000 people die each year from their alcohol consumption, and that 200 illnesses were linked to the consumption of alcoholic beverages, and not only among alcoholics. The recommended consumption in France is 10 glasses per week maximum, at a rate of two glasses per day, but ” not every day “.
