Belgian actress Emilie Dequenne is facing a recurrence of her rare and aggressive cancer… This Sunday, December 1, she came out of silence to give her news in Sept à Huit opposite Audrey Crespo-Mara. She confided in her heavy treatment but not only that. The actress returned to the violence of announcing the return of her illness to her parents.
After announcing that she was in remission, Emilie Dequenne is unfortunately facing a recurrence of her cancer… Last August, she wrote on Instagram: “Hello everyone! Unfortunately, I have to focus on my health again. For this reason, I would not be able to honor some of my future obligations…”. If she had wished to keep her new health problems a mystery, we now know that it is a very aggressive cancer and more precisely an adrenocorticaloma or adrenocortical carcinoma. The Gustave Roussy hospital indicates that it is estimated “what the annual incidence of this disease is 1 to 2 per million inhabitants. It occurs most often in adults between 40 and 50 years old but also in children under 15 years old. This tumor is more often observed in women than in men, without knowing the reason.
The actress therefore put her career on hold and spoke this Sunday, December 1, to Audrey Crespo-Mara for her emblematic portrait in the show Seven to eight on TF1. She explained: “I saw my doctor to check the progress of the treatment and it turns out that unfortunately, things are not progressing well. There is a part of my cancer that responds and another part that does not respond, or even progresses.”. And to specify that despite the chemo, the operation she must undergo and the 30 tablets she takes per day: “We only talk about remission, we will never talk about cure…“. If the discovery of this recurrence was a shock, Emilie Dequenne thought back to the painful announcement of the illness to her parents to whom she is close. “The funny thing is that I'm married, I have a grown-up daughter, my husband has two boys, but when we tell you that, we think of our parents”, confided the Belgian actress. Then add: “And I know that if there is more harm in the announcement of the illness… I think it is for the parents, but really”.
Emilie Dequenne very close to her parents
“At the time, my world collapsed, I told myself that I was going to die. Instantly I write my will”, she continued. Very close to her parents, the actress had told on the set of C to youmoved to Cannes during the film festival last May, that the announcement of his cancer had been difficult. After watching a sequence of her presentation of the Best Actress Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Rosetta of the Dardenne brothers where she thanked her parents, Emilie Dequenne started to cry.
She confided: “It’s stupid, I’ve already seen it plenty of times, but it’s just that what happened 25 years ago was a shock to my family and what’s happening 25 years later, It was a shock for my family too, so obviously, there it is, it happens the other way around.”. Grateful for the family she has, she told Paris Match Belgium: “It’s true that my education helped me keep my feet on the ground. I have always seen my parents work but also devote themselves to their family. They are proud to see their children flourishing and have passed these values on to me. I myself wanted to create a home and ensure that my loved ones did not lack anything.”. A difficult time to live through that we hope will soon become nothing more than a bad memory.
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