Catherine Laborde suffers from a “Lewy body dementia” since 2014 but continues to present the weather on TF1 until January 2017. She reveals her illness in 2018 in the program Sept à Huit. “I thank you all for your messages so beautiful, so warm. I am very moved. A big thank you to TF1 where I spent 28 years of my life. Thank you Seven to Eight for giving me the floor to expose this disease. I still love you all so much.” she comments on her page Facebook October 15. On October 4, 2020, she gives her news in this same show on the occasion of the release of her book “Amour Malade” written with her husband Thomas Stern. She recognizes that “It’s the disease that will prevail, at one time or another”.