Nicolas Demorand is a famous radio voice.
Among other things, the host, an illustrious figure of the PAF for twenty years, recently broke a taboo. That of mental illness, subject of burning society that artists, sportsmen, and therefore, journalists.
In order to prevention to the public, popularization too. Mental health, and more broadly the diseases that result from it, being often a source of fantasies or disinformation. The journalist, he wrote a book, published earlier this year, which lifts the veil on his bipolarity diagnosed 8 years ago.
Nicolas Demorand, essential TV and radio journalist
Nicolas Demorand, son of a diplomat, spent his youth in the 4 corners of the globe: Canada, United States, Japan, Belgium, Morocco.
1992, he won the general French competition of the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud. He made a
de Philo license and it is Associate in modern letters. For a while, he is a teacher.
Later, after rods for Inrocks and an experience of culinary criticism -his brother’s meter
Sébastien-, he enters into France
Culture. In 2002, he became animator of the morning tranche for four years before leaving for France
Inter. He then alternates TV, radio and even written press. Since 2017, he has been working with Léa Salamé.
The host breaks on his illness in his book
That year, the Inrocks, Mag Culture for which he has gone years earlier devotes a very flattering portrait to him. By calling it in particular “[…] Intello Geek, Stakhanovist of the microphone and large audience builder […]” Nicolas Demorand is at the firmament of his career. He does not yet know, at the time, that there was a small shadow on the board …
In 2017, according to him, he was diagnosed with bipolar. According to the site Amélithis is a “Chronic psychic disease with alternation of manic episodes, depressive episodes and remission.”Nicolas Demorand breaks silence and taboos by released a very personal book, Interior night. Since then, the journalist has done prevention on it.
Nicolas Demorand very cash on his diagnosed bipolarity
2025, Nicolas Demorand passes a head in C to you on France 5. The journalist of France Inter evokes without detour his terrible illness but also more broadly mental health. And, inevitably, the impact of bipolarity in its work and in the media. “Until the end, I said to myself: ‘No, don’t do it! You will make a mistake, it will cost you your life!’.”Said the journalist about writing his book.
Nicolas Demorand continues: “We must never talk about it
[de la bipolarité, NDLR]too dangerous. This is a question that I ask in the book, ‘Can we trust a mental sick journalist?‘It’s a real question
[…] I was afraid by writing this book […]”The co-presenter of Léa Salamé then specifies on the perception that people would have of this disease:“In France, not only are you sick but you have the scare. And you have to hide […]”Nicolas Demorand, just like in Interior nighttestifies with force, courage, convictions and without any modesty.
