Actress Émilie Dequenne confided Sunday evening on TF1 that she was fighting an increasingly aggressive cancer, which will mean that she will not live “not as long as expected.”
The 43-year-old Belgian revealed in October 2023 that she had a rare cancer, diagnosed two months earlier, and which has kept her away from film sets ever since.
“It turns out that, unfortunately, things are not progressing well. […] I'm off again for the chemo that I went through a little over a year ago.” she declared during an interview on the show Sept à Huit.
“I trust medicine”
“Deep down, I know I won't live as long as I expected. […] I'm only 43 years old. I have always dreamed of living to be at least 80 years old and falling asleep permanently in my sleep. That's what I'm asking.” she said.
“I trust medicine. […] I hope that research for my cancer will continue to advance,” explained the actress. His cancer is an adrenocorticoma, a malignant tumor of the adrenal gland, for which the prognosis is all the more bleak as the tumor is large.
Émilie Dequenne was revealed for her first role in Rosetta, by the Dardenne brothers, which won her the Best Actress Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999.
