Margaret Trudeau
Author · Advocate
Margaret Trudeau is a Canadian public figure and mental-health advocate who first became widely known as the wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. She later became an author and public speaker, drawing extensively on her own experience with bipolar disorder in her advocacy work. [6]
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Career and work
Margaret Trudeau first became widely known in the 1970s during her marriage to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Over the following decades, she developed a public career as a writer and speaker. [6]
She is the author of four books, including Changing My Mind, a memoir about her life and experience with bipolar disorder, and The Time of Your Life, which focuses on aging and well-being. She also co-wrote and performed the one-woman stage show A Woman of a Certain Age. [6]
In later years, much of Trudeau’s public work has focused on speaking about mental health and sharing her experience with bipolar disorder. [7]
What has been publicly discussed
“It’s a process to get well, but there is recovery.”
— Margaret Trudeau [5]
