deciphering everyday addictions on Canal+ Docs

« Tomorrow I stop ! » Who has not, at least once in their life, said this sentence? With a more or less positive result, moreover… A few days before the start of 2025, a good time, like every year, to state our good resolutions, Canal+ Docs is broadcasting a documentary series of the same name.

Over the course of four 52-minute episodes, the channel deciphers everyday addictions that most of us face. To make a greater impression, these are personalities, having experienced these addictions, who carry each episode and decipher, with the help of various specialists, their mechanisms. The first two, broadcast last Wednesday and available for replay on myCanal, focused on alcohol with the writer Christophe Tison, then on cigarettes with the star dancer Marie-Agnès Gillot.

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“I consume too much and I can no longer live without it”

This evening, host Énora Malagré reveals her addiction to sugar, while actor Philippe Lellouche talks about his love of the game. The presenter, who is one of the figures in the fight against endometriosis, delivers in the film – to like her colleagues participating in this documentary series – an intimate side of herself. She confides, shows herself every day with her lover or her friends, analyzes her compulsive behavior herself. « I'm addicted to sugarshe explains bluntly in the first minutes of the film. I consume too much of it and I can't live without it. » She's not the only one. In France, sugar consumption increased from 26 kg per year per person in 1953 to 35 kg in 2024; 5% to 10% of French people are even dependent on it.

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Coming from a family where cakes and sweets had a soothing or even emotional “virtue”, Énora Malagré tries to understand where her addiction comes from and how to overcome it by interviewing doctors and specialists. She discovered, for example, to her amazement, that ingesting sugar aggravates inflammatory diseases such as endometriosis from which she has suffered since adolescence. While she admits to having undergone heavy hormonal treatment which caused her to gain (along with sweets) nearly 15 kilos, she sets out, during the filming of the film, to overcome her addiction. A winding path that she entrusts to us without false modesty, but which she pursues with unfailing humor. « I'm unfortunately not addicted to chickpeas »she declares after discovering from a doctor that it would be good to replace sugar with dried vegetables.

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In the second episode, Philippe Lellouche highlights addiction to gambling and chance through his own experience. Nearly twenty years ago, when he played every evening and began to be diligent during the day, he knew how to say stop. « I decided to get banned from casinoshe confides. Five years of irreducible ban. And finally I lasted fifteen years. A brutal detoxification which most certainly protected me from the consequences of excessive gambling. » He also tries to analyze how it works with specialists. This original and well-executed series approaches addiction primarily through the human prism and allows a better understanding of our daily addictions with the ambition, at least the hope, of helping us get rid of them.