Between Laurent Ruquier and Thierry Ardisson, nothing has been going well since the show’s ratings failure Yesterday, today, tomorrow which they produced together in November 2022 on France 2. Thierry Ardisson was quick to say in the media that this failure was “Laurent Ruquier’s fault“.
Thierry Ardisson in media war with Laurent Ruquier
Feeling betrayed, the latter replied: “He is not a reliable person. When he was at Bolloré, he spoke ill of France Télévisions, and now that he is at France Télévisions, he speaks ill of Bolloré. He stabbed me in the back. So now, it is definitely over for me.“. Interviewed on the show Legend on YouTube this Wednesday, September 11, 2024, the host of Grosses Têtes on RTL did not hesitate to send a dig at his new enemy… Explaining that he only works in live conditions, without any interruption during his TV and radio shoots, Laurent Ruquier – who is not at his first settling of scores with him – declared: “My working conditions have always been like this. We don’t stop, even in We are not lying down. I know that Ardisson would stop to go pee, to go do other things, even, maybe, I imagine, but… (laughs) In any case, I never stopped.“. A reference to Thierry Ardisson’s drug use, which he had also mentioned in the same YouTube show.
Thierry Ardisson suffered from drug addiction in his youth
“I was hooked on heroin for three years. I thought it was the solution because you don’t want to eat anymore, you don’t want to f**k anymore, you don’t want to work anymore… It’s a kind of powdered nirvana, you take it, except that after a while, you realize that you’re hooked on the drug. And then, I got out of it, it’s probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. Because most of the guys I was with, they either died of AIDS or they died of overdoses. And I went to California. There, I didn’t know where there were any. So I spent six months in California. That’s why I tell young people, don’t touch opiates, it’s a big, big trap. You can’t get out of it“, Thierry Ardisson confided to Guillaume Pley. On France Bleu, he returned to this painful period, adding: “I had a hard time“.