Émilie Dequenne announced in October 2023 that she was suffering from a rare cancer, which forced her to put her career on hold. “Since mid-August, when I underwent a major emergency operation, I have continued to take care of myself. It’s not easy every day, but I am determined to beat this rare cancer that has decided to turn my life upside down. I won’t let that happen. Believe me!”she wrote on social media. On April 4, the actress revealed that she was in complete remission, while specifying that the battle was, unfortunately, “not finished”. “I am under very high surveillance and treatment, but I have a strong morale.” she confided on Instagram. Then, last May, the actress was back in the spotlight at the Cannes Film Festival. She had been received on the set of the show It’s up to you and had broken down in tears while talking about his fight against the disease.
To our colleagues at Parisianshe said in June about her desire to speak out early about her illness: “I put a film in disaster by abandoning a shoot and that speaks in the profession. I didn’t want anyone to say anything.”. “I received a lot of messages. I also received text messages and small gifts from people in the cinema While I am very discreet, I have few friends there. I realized that there are very good people in this profession”she acknowledged. This Tuesday, August 27, Emilie Dequenne shared a message on her Instagram feed that may worry her fans. Indeed, on a black background, she wrote: “Hello everyone! Unfortunately, I have to focus on my health again. For this reason, I will not be able to honor some of my upcoming obligations… I will obviously keep you informed, and I hope to see you soon!“. “Thank you again a thousand times for all your messages, full of love. I’LL BE BACK [je serai de retour, ndlr]”she concluded.
Emilie Dequenne will celebrate her birthday on August 29th, and will be with her family in Belgium for this beautiful event. She should not be at the Deauville Festival as planned, but strong as she is… she will come back to us very soon!
Emilie Dequenne saved by her producer
The actress confided in our colleagues at the Parisian and on the help of her producer who, according to her, saved her life.I was on a shoot and I had a stomach ache. I saw two different doctorswho thought it was irritable bowel syndrome or constipation. A little later, I stopped reading because I was very tired“, she explained. Then, Emilie Dequenne expressed her gratitude towards Diana Elbaum, her producer. “Thanks to her, I‘I was taken to a private hospital in Brussels as an emergency, where I had a blood test and a scan. Very quickly, I had an operation and then I started my first chemotherapy. I was incredibly lucky. You have to know that people with cancer wait ages before having PET scans and chemo…“, she concluded, aware of how lucky she was.
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