The co-host of the “La Poche Bleue” podcast and TVA Sports analyst Guillaume Latendresse announced that he took a break from his professional activities on Wednesday to take care of his mental health.
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“I am currently going through difficult times mentally,” wrote the 37-year-old man in a message published early in the evening on social networks.
“This has been a recurring situation for several years, probably a symptom of my concussions during my career and I decided to try to resolve my problem this week,” then added the former number 84 of the Montreal Canadiens.
Latendresse indicated that all his colleagues were very understanding following this decision.
“It’s something that I should perhaps have done for a few years, but which I always put off,” wrote the man who is also co-owner of the Saint-Hyacinthe Battalion in the North American Hockey League.
“We support Guillaume, we are behind him and we can’t wait to see him again when he gets better. We wish him a speedy recovery,” said Louis-Philippe Neveu, general manager of TVA Sports.
Support from Lapierre
Latendresse’s eternal sidekick on the ice and in his projects, Maxim Lapierre, did not hesitate to welcome his friend’s decision, in the evening, during his visit to “JiC”.
“It’s a good decision,” he said.
“I have been next to him almost our entire adult life, I see him almost every day, we played hockey and I know how difficult a fight it is,” he explained. When you start to accumulate concussions and stress sets in, for the quality of life, at a given moment, it’s important to think about yourself.”
“That doesn’t mean it’s dramatic, it means he needs time to restart the machine,” Lapierre put things into perspective. I’m not worried about him, I think he’s going to do the right things, he’s going to go and take some time, think, have fun, not worry.”
“It was the right thing to do and I respect that enormously,” he concluded.
