The day before, Emilie Dequenne had an appointment with her doctor. The news is not good as she explains in the show Sept à Huit broadcast on TF1 this Sunday, December 1st. “It's not progressing well. Part of my cancer is progressing. It is greater than that which reduces. Here we go again for chemo with a little new thing”, says the actress revealed at the age of 17 in Rosetta by the Dardenne brothers.
The actress is preparing for what awaits her in the coming months. “I'm going to lose my hair again“, she testifies. Emilie Dequenne suffers from cancer”hyper rare” but also “very aggressive, extremely repeat offender“which affects the adrenal gland and concerns”one to two people in a million in the world“.
“I know I won’t live as long as I expected.”
She remembers the first symptoms before the diagnosis. “I had a very bad stomach ache, I was very tired“. Then his reaction at the time of the announcement, “Instantly my world collapsed. I write my will, my wishes.“Very moved, she announces,”I know I won't live as long as I expected. […] I'm only 43 years old. I always dreamed of living to be at least 80 years old and falling asleep permanently in my sleep.”
Although his life is now focused between his home and the hospital, he misses film sets. And even saw herself replaced even though a director had promised her a small role. “I scare the producers“Faced with all these trials, she said it again, “Talking about illness is something I need. We feel very alone. I am surrounded by many people but in suffering, there is a form of extreme solitude. I feel deep down that I need to talk about it. It's my little medicine.“
The 43-year-old Belgian revealed in October 2023 that she had a rare cancer, diagnosed two months earlier. His cancer is an adrenocorticaloma, for which the prognosis is all the more dismal as the tumor is large.
