At the start of the 2022 school year, Alexandra Pizzagali joined Telematin for a column focused on current events. The comedian, to whom France 2 had given carte blanche, saw his rise brutally stopped by a bad joke about the Nice attacks. Faced with the outcry caused by his remarks, the public channel decided to oust him from its morning show.
Alexandra Pizzagali's descent into hell after a “bad buzz” In Telematin
What followed was a descent into hell as Alexandra Pizzagali confided to Parisian on Sunday November 24, 2024. Very quickly, she was the target of a wave of hateful messages and harassment on social networks. “I'm starting to receive hyperaggressive messages, by the hundreds: 'Go die! Give the money back! No talent!' It's very, very violent. The haters, I had already paid the price but they had always been in the minority”she remembered.
In quick succession, she was thanked by France 2 – a channel which will relaunch a cult show – and France Inter, while messages like “you have no talent” continued to multiply on the internet. “It was so rehashed that I ended up believing it. We are talking about five major wounds in human beings: humiliation, betrayal, rejection, abandonment, injustice. Five in one, like a shampoo, I got them at once”she commented. On the stage side, his show had faced a series of cancellations…
“When people ask me how I’m doing, I make joke after joke. It’s very pernicious the way it affects me”remembered Alexandra Pizzagali. Then faced with anxiety attacks and work stoppages, she resolved to return to her family in Brittany. “A failed column is futile, I know it’s nothing compared to what’s happening in the world. I saw no happy prospects, in a week, a year, ten years. I say to myself: 'Eureka, I found it'. As I believe in reincarnation, I will end this life and move on to the next…“she rewound. The vision of not making her parents sad and her sister's pregnancy prevented her from committing the irreparable.
Alexandra Pizzagali, back on stage, is teeming with projects
His new life in Brittany allowed him to learn to “zoom out”. Reconnected to the essential things of life, she undertook a reconstruction. This Monday, November 25, 2024, the former columnist of Telematin will perform the last performance of his show It's in the head, chapter I at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris. “Even if the room is not quite full, this date, I feel it will be pretty”she confided.
“This story allowed me to question myself: no, I don't want to write chronicles, but to write stories, and play them“added Alexandra Pizzagali. The young comedian is full of projects. In addition to writing a second show that she plans to call It's in the stomach, chapter IIshe developed a series with an evocative title: Infinite sweetness of tomorrows that complain.
