The comedian and host of “Masked singers” interrupted the 37e Gemini Awards because he felt hurt, muzzled, and ostracized by his peers over the past year.
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Having come under heavy criticism following a video in which he explained that he was waiting for the Quebec vaccine from Medicago before being vaccinated once morest COVID – leading to the loss of several contracts, including his partnership with the car manufacturer Hyundai –, Guillaume Lemay -Thivièrge told Stéphan Bureau on Friday evening that he had had a difficult year.
He explained to the show “Le monde à l’envers” that he went on stage on Sunday evening during Gemini, with “a turd on his heart” and a bitter taste left by comments that Louis made regarding him. Morissette and Guy A. Lepage, on the set of “Everyone talks regarding it”, last year, in the heart of the health crisis.
Admitting to having been afraid of vaccines, the actor felt singled out “as if I had done something really bad”, he underlined with emotion, later apologizing to the children of Louis Morissette and those of Guy A. Lepage.
«[L’an passé], I was attacked for thinking differently. Damn it hurt me,” he continued.
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge assured that his primary motivation for interrupting Gemini was political. He wanted to remind people of the importance of going to vote, but “while there” he took the opportunity to give back to the people who hurt him.
“They didn’t want me to explain my choices. And what happened this week is that it was decided that I had done something which, despite the fact that it was not understandable, was wrong from the outset, ”said the comedian.
The host, who will marry next week with his co-host of “If we loved each other”, Émilie Bégin, assured Stéphan Bureau that he was fine, admitting to dragging a fatigue that has lasted for a year. “I have to take care of myself, I have to take care of myself. I have to take a “break”.
Elsewhere, this week’s special guest on ‘The Upside Down’, Normand Brathwaite, had an illuminating discussion on the ‘n-word’. Yasmine Abdelfadel, Sophie Durocher, Biz and Gregory Charles discussed the private lives of prime ministers outside of their office, referring among other things to the video that went viral of Justin Trudeau singing in the lobby of a hotel in London while he was there for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
The panellists also addressed the repetition of children in primary school while the survey of the week revealed that only 29% of people would have the courage to go and teach in schools in Quebec.
“Le monde à l’envers” is broadcast live every Friday on TVA.
To see the interview, watch the video above.