“I tell myself that I am going to die”, the actress confirms the recurrence of her cancer and reveals her concerns

Regarding the health of stars, several have been in the news a lot in recent months due to serious problems which have had a major impact on their careers. In June, singer Céline Dion made her comeback after two years of media withdrawal, with the documentary I Am in which she revealed her daily life as a mother suffering from a rare genetic disease – stiff man syndrome -, suggesting that she had gone through very difficult times. Once again in the spotlight, and while we are wondering about the release of two records in the coming months following her participation in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics last summer, she is now showing of resilience as does Caroline Receveur, who made her fight against breast cancer a poignant testimony addressed to all women.

Recently, Florent Pagny let it be known that he was doing better, even though he had been diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, and which had also led him to choose the shadow rather than the light to follow the path to healing. The interpreter of Anything has pushed the doors of his privacy and evokes in images his fight against illness in the book Pagny by Aël who got a lot of attention last month.

Émilie Dequenne faced with chemo again

It is now Emilie Dequenne which shines the spotlight on her and the cancer from which she has suffered for almost a year and a half. The 43-year-old Belgian actress announced in October 2023 that she was suffering from a very rare disease, a adrenal gland cancer also called adrenocorticaloma, and continued to provide news during the months that followed. So much so that last spring she claimed that she was in complete remission, before delivering messages of hope on social networks. However, the situation is reversed and Émilie Dequenne announced Sunday December 1st in the show Seven to Eight that the illness had taken over again.

It is with Audrey Crespo-Mara that the actress, winner of a César for her role in the film LThings we say, Things we do by Emmanuel Mouret confided. “It turns out that unfortunately, things are not progressing well”she confirmed in complete transparency. Without beating around the bush, she added: “There is a part of my cancer that responds, another that does not respond, or even progresses. The part that progresses is larger than the part that shrinks”. Émilie Dequenne is therefore once again subjected to heavy treatment, “chemo” that she already had “known a little over a year ago”. “With a small dose in addition to something new which, it seems, will surprise the tumor, but which requires hospitalization and I'm going to lose my hair again…”she added.

Émilie Dequenne wrote her last wishes

Far from being reassured by the idea of ​​staying regularly in the hospital, Émilie Dequenne also clarified that no one spoke to her “no cure”but only “remission”. “At the time my world is collapsing, I tell myself I'm going to die…Instantly, I write my will”she added, remembering that moment when she learned the bad news. As she pointed out, she immediately thought about writing her “last wishes” : “Little things that come to me, if something happened to me… About what I want, buried, not buried… I still don't know what I want, it's complicated. I don't want to just die!“she finally blurted out.

Far away from the film sets, Émilie Dequenne nevertheless agreed to make an appearance with short hair at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, but also for the premiere of the film Survive by Frédéric Jardin in June, at the UGC cinema in Paris-Bercy. For this one, she played Julia, and it is to date her last film role.