It is at a open heart that ten celebrities will speak this Tuesday, May 6, 2025 on M6 in the documentary shock santMental: Breaking the tabou. Among them, Yannick Noahtennis player and singer, will return with modesty on the many depressive passages that he has crossed, and which led him to consider the worst.
In 1983, when he was at the height of his glory after winning the Roland-Garros tournament, the sixty-something, which has just become daddy again for the sixth time, Suddenly loses foot. Then aged twenty years, Yannick Noah can no longer face his heavy depression, and plans to end it. For the first time in his life, The sportsman faces suicidal desires.
Yannick Noah and Mother Evil
“I was waiting for in the evening, that there was no one in the streets of Paris, and I came out walking. I wanted to die. I watched the Seine and I said to myself: I throw myself, I can’t take it anymore“ confides with emotion Yannick Noah. After long years of questions and psychoanalysis, the singer will understand the reasons for his depressive episodes, and will be able to put words on his ills. The fault of the absence of his mother, whom he left at the age of 11 To live his passion for sport. Marie-Claire Noah, teacher, died in 2012 at the age of 75.
Moving testimonies
In this shock documentary, advanced in its broadcast following the book that Nicolas Demorand published in which the journalist confides for the first time on his bipolar disorders, nine other celebrities in addition to Yannick Noah report their mental concerns. The humorist Constance reveals having been diagnosed with a bipolarity disorder after facing an important burn-out, while Camille Lacourt hits hard by revealing For the first time his setbacks with alcoholism. François Berléand will reveal to have faced paranoid and mythomanian delusions, while the singer apple delivers a fight against generalized anxiety disorder.
Rapper Hatik, seemingly very strong, will deliver an overwhelming testimony on its depression. A disease that also suffered the swimmer Camille Lacourt, but also Michèle Bernier. The actress will confide with great emotion on the suicide of her mother, at the age of 29, fruit of all her trauma. Finally, the host Éric Antoine will evoke for the first time Eating disorders that gnaw himand which are the result of much deeper trauma …
