Emilie Dequenne spoke in the show Sept à Huit this Sunday, December 1. The actress returned to her fight against cancer, revealing that she has been facing a recurrence for more than a year.
In August 2023, actress Emilie Dequenne discovered that she was suffering from a very aggressive cancer requiring urgent operation.
After a complete remission in April 2024, she announced in December that the cancer was progressing again, requiring new chemotherapy.
Discover Emilie Dequenne's moving secrets about her fight against cancer and her hope for remission.
Emilie Dequenne's life took a new turn overnight. The actress was in the middle of filming in August 2023 when she realized something was wrong. In just a few weeks, she will discover the unthinkable: Emilie Dequenne suffers from very aggressive cancer and she must undergo a major emergency operation. It is an adrenal cortex, which is located above the kidney, which takes control of your body, your daily life and your life. A very rare cancer, which will force him to take a break.
Emilie Dequenne puts her health first. Far from the sets, she continues the examinations and, in April 2024, she confided to having achieved a “complete remission” of her cancer. Good news which allowed him to return to the film sets. However, last August, the actress had to take a break again. Facing Audrey Crespo-Mara this Sunday, December 1, in the show Seven to Eightshe made many confidences on this subject. “I saw my doctor to check the progress of the treatment and it turns out that unfortunately it is not progressing”she said.
Emilie Dequenne: moving confidences
She is a distraught woman who confided in complete transparency. “There is a part of my cancer that responds to it and another that does not respond to it, or even progresses”, she continued, specifying that she would have to undergo chemotherapy treatment again. “The part that advances is greater than the part that reduces,” deplores Emilie Dequenne before adding: “And here I am again off for the chemo that I went through a little over a year ago, with even a small additional dose of something new which, it seems, will surprise the tumor.” Will this second treatment be necessary to get over the hell she is going through?
Emilie Dequenne understands that it is important for her to go through chemotherapy once again. She specifies that this requires hospitalization and adds that she will suffer many physical after-effects. “I'm going to lose my hair again… she lamented before adding: “And then the idea of finding myself every three weeks for five days in the hospital…”. A very complicated quote for the actress who is aware that she will never really escape from this hell. “We only talk about remission. We will never talk about healing”she later clarified. Despite the difficult times, Emilie Dequenne wants to believe it and does not completely lose hope of getting out of this hell.
Emilie Dequenne: “My world is collapsing”
Emilie Dequenne is aware that the next few months are going to be complicated. This rare disease, the actress explains that she has no hope of being completely cured. When she discovered she had cancer, she remembers imagining the worst: ” Instantly my world collapses, I tell myself that I am going to die… Instantly, I write my will” . Before her first major operation, Emilie Dequenne preferred to take the lead and anticipate in the event of complications. “At the time, I write down wishes, little things that come to me, if something happened to me… On what I want, buried, not buried…”, she confided, upset: “ I still don't know what I want, it's complicated. I just don't want to die! “.
