She is taken to the hospital by limousine due to the lack of an ambulance after falling ill: Beatrice Picard feels better

Beatrice Picard, victim of the illness that took her to hospital last Saturday, returned home with a new philosophy: to slow down if she wants to achieve her ultimate goal: “to play until I am 100, not in a wheelchair.”

“It’s okay, I’ll be here for a long time. It was a bit of exhaustion. They took me back to the hospital,” says Beatrice Picard, 94, enthusiastically. Newspaper.

The actress was weak during the Saint-Jerome Senior Citizen’s Fair last Saturday. It’s Dr. François Marquis – who we recently saw on the show Get me out of here – who was next to her at the time and asked her to go to the hospital when she said: “I don’t think it’s okay.” »

In the minister’s car (the official limousine of the Minister of Health and Seniors, Sonia Belanger) the actress was taken to the nearest hospital, because it was actually faster than waiting for the ambulance (from an hour to an hour and half an hour) to get to the hospital.

“It was so fast that I don’t really remember it,” Beatrice Picard says with a laugh. The actress also told Mario Dumont that the minister “was not happy and that she went to complain at Saint-Jérôme Hospital.”

Beatrice Pickard spent 24 hours in hospital, where numerous tests and examinations of her pacemaker were performed.

“At the age I’m at, if I’m not careful, you get tired more quickly. We go beyond our strengths and discuss our hearts. This was useful for me, because it would allow me to say to myself: be careful, take less time or take the time to do this.” More slowly. It’s like an old jalopy rolling into the garage,” she continues, with her trademark sarcastic air.

• Beatrice Picard was on QUB Radio’s microphone to talk about her tormented youth in Quebec via QUB Radio :

Projects

The actress – who has dubbed the voice of Marge Simpson for 33 seasons – has several projects in the works, including performances with pianist Philippe Prudhomme, then with the “one-man band” Jean-Jacques Bordeaux and his girlfriend Marie-Josée. Longchamps, which presents texts by Quebec authors. It’s all for 2024, “so I have to be in good shape”, breathes those who do not hesitate to “shake the big ones”.

“I tell them to have plans and fight for their place, and not tell them you’re too old. For me, if you want to do something, give me the space to do it. We have to make room for the young, and we must also make room for the old.” Age. Just because I’m a certain age doesn’t mean I have to stay at home in my wheelchair. »