He had everything to succeed. In the 1990s, a pair had smashed the screen, so much so that it was believed to be invincible. The two animators who formed this dream team, Ophélie Winter and Yves Noel, together presented the Hit Machine and the few shows Dance Machine that followed. Then suddenly, nothing. The young man disappeared from radar … because of health concerns, as he agreed to explain, on Saturday March 6, 2021, in the show The weekend docs on TF1.
I have known periods when, 200 days a year, I wanted to end it …
Yves Noël was also illustrated, with his twin brother Hervé, in Multitop on M6. But it wasn’t the double-edged sword of fame that drove him away from the media realm. Yves Noël actually needed to take care of his mental balance. “I have what is called the disease of great men, in all pretense, or that of great women, he clarified. It is bipolar disorder, and mood disorder. It’s chemical. It’s in the brain. Sometimes we have a lot of energy, sometimes we don’t have any at all. It is regulated with a treatment, it is a chronic disease like diabetes.”
Today, Yves Noël is dad of two, from two different mothers, including a 5-year-old son named Sasha and a daughter born in 2002. Her eldest, who is close to the majority, lives in the United States. He enjoys his youngest every other week and half of the holidays. The former host did not specify if this inequality of time was due to his state of health but still said that his illness could be very “crippling in personal life as a professional “. “It started in 1997. So it still severely handicapped me for seventeen years., he recalled. I was already at M6 and at home it was mainly characterized by attacks of depression which could have been very very long, which sometimes lasted for a year. I have known periods when, 200 days a year, I wanted to end it …“
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