She compares her life to “roller coaster“. Flavie, candidate for season 19 of L’amour est dans le pré, currently broadcast, learned two months after the start of filming that she had cancer.
Two months before the start of the show, the young woman had consulted a dermatologist to control a cyst on her shoulder which was bothering her, reveals the young woman at the Parisian. If the biopsy turned out to be a benign tumor, the young woman still wanted to have the operation,”for comfort“. It was February 2024.
It was only two months after the filming that the young woman received a phone call from her oncologist. The diagnosis is made.
“Flavie was strong”
“I had sarcoma. I collapsed. The oncologist immediately told me that there would be chemo. (…) I went home, I cried for half an hour, then I called my sister and my parents” tells the young woman to Le Parisien.
Flavie explains her situation to Valentin, with whom she has only been in a relationship for a few days. The farmer then says “not having asked the question of leaving or staying. We always have tough times in life, we have to get over them. Flavie was strong.”
The young woman decided to go through with L’amour est dans le pré.
For the producer of the show Gabriella Mather, this is a first: “When she told me the news, I fell off the chair. She was panicked and I didn’t know what to do. I will remember this phone call all my life.”
His testimony broadcast on November 11
Filming for the rest of the show was then accelerated and the young woman began a five-month treatment of chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
Flavie has now completed her treatment, but is awaiting results before announcing her remission. The young woman was able to return to her job as a waitress.
She now hopes that her testimony, which will be broadcast on November 11 on M6, will encourage young people to consult a doctor if in doubt.
