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01/12/2024 at 7:42 p.m.
The Belgian actress confides to Audrey Crespo-Mara in the magazine Sept à Huit broadcast this Sunday that she has a very rare cancer and that she will have to resume chemotherapy sessions.
In the spring of 2024, Émilie Dequenne announced that her cancer, which had kept her away from the sets, was in remission. A victory for the 43-year-old Belgian actress, who would once again be able to film. In Audrey Crespo-Mara's portrait of the week, broadcast this Sunday in “Sept à Huit” on TF1, she reveals that the disease is back.
“I saw my doctor to check the progress of the treatment and it turns out that, unfortunately, it is not progressing well. There is a part of my cancer that responds to it and another that does not respond to it, or even progresses. The part that progresses is greater than the part that reduces,” she explains in front of the TF1 cameras. Émilie Dequenne suffers from a “super rare” cancer located above the kidney and which affects “one to two people in a million per year in the world”. “I felt, this summer, that things weren’t going very well in my body,” she explains. The actress will begin new chemotherapy.
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Loss of a role
In this poignant interview, the actress explains the difficulty of doing your job when you are sick. “I had one of the first roles in this film. When the recurrence happened, I warned her that it wouldn't be possible because I had to start chemotherapy again. He told me that in any case, there is a small role. I'm overjoyed, telling myself that, obviously, shooting for two days, three days… I'm just happy to be able to play,” she remembers. “Time passes and it was while surfing the net that I discovered that… that I had been replaced and that I had not been informed. » Why is she speaking? “I feel deep down that I need to talk about it […] It's my little medicine. »
