After the controversy, this former Télématin columnist reveals having thought about suicide

Comedian Alexandra Pizzagali, who was ousted from France 2 after a controversial sketch in Telematinconfides in the suicidal desires that crossed her.

“It was so rehashed that I ended up believing it“More than two years after the controversy, comedian Alexandra Pizzagali returned to the great difficulties she has had to face since her time in Telematin. On September 5, 2022, she actually made her debut on the France 2 morning show, with a column focused on the author of the Nice attack, whose trial opened the same day. Jokes then deemed to be in bad taste, which led to her being dismissed by the management of the public channel. “The management of France Télé and the Télématin teams regret that a humorous column rightly offended many viewers“, also declared the audiovisual group.

Controversy in Telematin : comedian Alexandra Pizzagali confides in her suicidal thoughts

Questioned in the columns of Parisianthis Monday, November 25, on the occasion of the last performance of his show It's in the head, chapter 1in the capital, Alexandra Pizzagali looked back on the dark times she went through in recent years. The young woman took the full brunt of the hateful messages she received on social networks: “We are talking about five major wounds in human beings: humiliation, betrayal, rejection, abandonment, injustice. Five in one, like a shampoo, I got them all at once“, she tells our colleagues, explaining that her shows no longer attracted the public after the controversy: “When people ask me how I'm doing, I make joke after joke, I don't realize how much it affects me, it's very pernicious“, she analyzes now.

Alexandra Pizzagali reveals that she took refuge with her parents after the controversy in Telematin

Alexandra Pizzagali also reveals that she ended up returning to Brittany, to her parents, in order to escape this nightmare, confiding that she even thought about suicide. “I didn't see any 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 remembers, assuring that she did not take action for those close to her: “I haven't found a way to keep them from being sad. Their potential pain saved me“, she concluded.