In addition to her immense career, Marie-Paule Belle stands out above all for her strength of character. At just 78 years old, the singer decided to celebrate her 50th career with her audience. In January and June, the person concerned also arranged to meet him at the Passy theater, to present her show entitled One evening among a thousand !
On November 2, the interpreter of The Parisian this time brilliantly stood out on the stage of the Folies Bergères to thank all the people who have supported her in recent particularly difficult years. Won over by the show offered by the singer that evening, the spectators did not notice a detail concerning the appearance of Marie-Paule Belle. She wore a wig and France Sunday reveals in its issue of this Friday, November 15, 2024 that the singer “would have resumed chemotherapy“.
In 2016, the singer lost her long-time companion, the writer Françoise Mallet-Joris, who contributed to the writing of several of her songs. At the same time, doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer. “My chemotherapy sessions force me to step away from my professional life (…). I found myself in great distress, illness and without resources“, Marie-Paule Belle testified on the website of Heart Committeewho supported her enormously during this delicate period.
Marie-Paule Belle recounts her fight against illness
Against all odds, Marie-Paule Belle fought with determination, carried by the memory of her beloved Françoise, in addition to receiving a multitude of letters of support and encouragement. “It’s last years I received countless words of love from the publicshe declared. I have visualized my return to the stage so many times, only dreaming of that. That’s what kept me going and gave me strength“. Even in adversity, the singer with a 50-year career has always refused to hide her state of health from the world.
“In my family, there are fifty-seven doctors. We have always said things. It’s stupid to hide a health problem. Cancers are becoming more and more curable, she commented. When you have the chance to be a public figure, it’s also good to talk about it to say that you can get through it, that there is more and more hope, I am proof of that“But in 2023, against all expectations, Marie-Paule Belle unfortunately had a fairly serious recurrence.”with metastases extending from the neck to the abdomen” thus forcing her to resume her chemotherapy. A fight that Marie-Paule Belle would unfortunately still not have won despite her great adversity…
