Guest on the set of the program. starts today This Tuesday, for an episode entitled “The disease came to test the strength of his love”, Catherine Laborde’s husband, Thomas Stern, returned to the state of health of his partner, who suffers from dementia with Lewy bodies.
In a moving testimony, the latter explains that the former TF1 weather star suffers from “motor disorders, anxiety attacks and hallucinations”.
“It is a so-called disease, with fluctuations. She has moments when she is completely lucid again and in fact that does not reassure her because in those moments she wonders what is happening to her, ”confesses Thomas Stern on the set of the program. presented by Faustine Bollaert.
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Close to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, Lewy body dementia had forced the man who had become one of TF1’s iconic weather presenters to say goodbye to television in 2017, after a 28-year career.
Diagnosed in 2014, says Catherine Laborde in her book to tremble his fight against the disease, for which there is currently no treatment and which leaves serious consequences, such as language disorders.
Quite a difficult situation to live for Thomas Stern, as the spouses shared an intellectual connection and wrote two books together, between them love Sickreleased in 2020.
“The fact that the language escapes him completely disorients me. It’s like I lost part of who I am myself,” she says.
Despite the evolution of the disease, Thomas Stern assures that he takes care of his wife and “continues to make her laugh because it is fundamental”.
Source: BFM TV
