Catherine Deneuve suffered a stroke in 2019.
And unlike some, the star “felt it coming”, while she was filming Emmanuelle Bercot’s film, In her lifetime, in a hospital.
“I had hesitations about my text, memory lapses. I said it. They immediately realized that something was wrong and they reacted,” Catherine Deneuve explained to Vanity Fair.
The iconic 81-year-old actress spent a difficult convalescence at Les Invalides, where she was surrounded by wounded soldiers.
-“Seeing all these young men injured, amputees, these soldiers in this state… There was one who was still lying on his back, on a stretcher, he could no longer walk. He had made a jump and his parachute had not opened. He looked at the sky, the dome and he smoked. He was handsome. Seeing that is difficult,” she confides.
If the actress Young ladies of Rochefort has recovered, she continues to work on her memory with a speech therapist. She notes that “the more time passes, the more things from the past, from childhood, are there”. Although she has difficulty remembering a first name, the day her mother “left for the sanatorium” is still vivid in her mind. “It was horrible, she was taken away, I was looking out the window, I was seven years old, I could describe this window exactly, its size, its frame, the light, everything,” reveals Catherine Deneuve.
