Maripier Morin attended the press viewing of the new OD series Temptations au soleil on Wednesday.
We discussed several topics with her, including her new position at Rythme, alongside Marie-Ève Janvier.
She tells us that she initially refused the Montreal station’s proposal.
« I lost my microphone [à WKND] on Friday. Over the weekend it was my brother’s funeral », she tells us. “ Then, on Tuesday, I think, I got a call to tell me that there would potentially be an offer that could come from Cogéco. After which I said: “I don’t feel able to go to work.” I just gave birth, I had a super difficult birth. I just lost my microphone. Maybe there’s a reason for that… Physically, it wasn’t right. I spent a month in bed after giving birth. I had just lost my brother. “Thank you very much, but I’ll pass.” »
She continues her story: “ After which, they called me back to say: “We didn’t want to tell you which show it was for, but we think it could perhaps influence your decision. Know that it would be to work with Marie-Ève January.” I took that information and went, “OK, perfect.” »
I hung up, I went to see my boyfriend, then I said: “the radio would be with Marie-Ève”. Then we both started crying.
« For lots of reasons,” she continues, “because my boyfriend, her best friend, was Marie-Ève’s brother. Marie-Ève is someone who also knows the grief of a brother. I think that humanly and emotionally, it called me. »
« It seems like I was telling myself: on the days that things aren’t going well, you’re not going to talk about it with her. I don’t know her, Marie-Ève. We had crossed paths often in our careers, but she is not a friend. He’s not someone I was close to. But inside me, it said to me: “this is what you need to do”. I followed my instinct, and then it was as simple as that. Today, I don’t regret my choice at all. But it was fast. I returned to the airwaves, my baby was only two months old. I thought it all happened quickly. It’s been an autumn that has been at breakneck speed with the filming of OD, the radio, MOX too, which still takes up time in my schedule. »
I think that when the radio ends, I’m going to have to settle down and take some time for myself because I think that emotionally, I’m perhaps avoiding a bit of my grief and therefore in relation to everything we have experienced.
« But being in action keeps me grounded too. I think there’s some good in that too. »
We wish Maripier Morin a rejuvenating and restorative holiday season.
Lunch Girls is broadcast from Monday to Thursday from 11:30 a.m. on Rythme FM.
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