Belgian actress Emilie Dequenne confided this Sunday in Sept à Huit that she is in a relapse of her cancer, which she has been fighting for more than a year.
“I won't live as long as expected.” Actress Emilie Dequenne spoke sincerely about her fight against cancer, which she has been waging for more than a year. At the microphone of Seven to eight this Sunday, the Belgian actress confided that she was in relapse. She announced last April that she was in “complete remission”.
“I saw my doctor to check the progress of the treatment and it turns out that unfortunately it is not progressing well,” revealed Emilie Dequenne. “There is a part of my cancer that responds, and another that does not respond or even progresses. The part that progresses is larger than the part that reduces. Here I am again, leaving for the chemo that I went through a long time ago. is a little over a year old,” reveals the actress.
Emilie Dequenne revealed in October 2023 that she suffered from adrenocortical cancer, “super rare”, which affects the adrenal gland. This produces hormones and therefore has a vital function. “We only talk about remission” in this type of cancer, she adds in the TF1 show, “never about a cure”. And to confide with sincerity and emotion that he is “afraid of dying”: “Deep down I know that I will not live as long as expected”.
Emilie Dequenne was revealed to the public in 1999, thanks to the film Rosetta of the Dardenne brothers. For this role, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She then diversified her career, appearing in both blockbusters (The Wolf Pact) or social dramas (To lose his mind, not his type). After being nominated four times during her career, the actress won the César for best supporting actress in 2021, for the film The things we say, the things we do by Emmanuel Mouret.
