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“Two knitting needles…”: Line Renaud talks about her clandestine abortion at the age of 18 (VIDEO)

This weekend, Laurent Delahoussereceived Line Renaud on the set of “ 8:30 p.m. Sunday “. The 96-year-old actress looked back on her immense career, in the cinema but also on her private life and the hard blows that marked her, including a clandestine abortion. In 1948, when she had just celebrated her 18th birthday, the former music hall queen confided that she had become pregnant. So, in a relationship with Loulou Gastéwho would later become her husband, the latter refused at that time to keep the child… “ I was not sufficiently established in Loulou's life to impose, to want and to say: “I want” she regrets before continuing her story.

Line Renaud : “She pierced, I bled…”

« All I remember is that everything is black, we went up a completely black staircase, I arrived in front of a woman. She came with two needles… two knitting needles. She pierced, I bled, and so there it is » explains the actress with modesty and emotion. And to add “ Mrs Simone Veil, thank you! “. The actress evokes here the fight of the former Minister of Health and President of the European Parliament, who in 1975 adopted the law decriminalizing abortion. A law included in the French constitution on March 8 “ It's extraordinary! Women make themselves heard », concluded the actress.

Line Renaud : “I had sepsis.”

Last March Line Renaud also returned to this painful memory, recounting the aftermath of this chilling intervention “I had septicemia (a serious general blood infection, editor’s note.). So we brought in our family doctor who finished the abortion… But on the dining room table. It's better not to see, it's horrible», explained the actress on the microphone of to see or rewatch on the platforms of @francetvpro @Francetele pic.twitter.com/11XuAvkEDI— 8:30 p.m. Sunday (@8:30 p.m. Sunday)


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