Clémentine Célarié has found the strength to come out of the silence to talk about her colon cancer. In his book The forbidden words (Albin Michel), published on November 4, the 64-year-old actress, ill for very long months, speaks out about her fight against the disease. She wanted to share her painful experience with her audience and explained that she used chemotherapy to treat herself. Invited on RTL the day of the release of her book, Clémentine Célarié spoke of these very hard sessions which made her lose her hair. A real shock.
“My hair is falling out in May 2020, I have to shoot in Lille in August. We will have to find something to hide the misery. Six months that I am in chemotherapy and nobody in the profession knows anything”, said the one who is slowly recovering from the suicide of her companion. Recognizable on screen and on stage thanks to her talent and her auburn hair, Clémentine Célarié admits that this loss “is worse than anything “ for her.
“A woman without hair, it’s even more frowned upon than cancer. It’s crazy how it feels. It’s morbid, it smacks of the end of life, what. It’s silly, I know, but to brush hair and to see that they remain on the brush, it is as if life were leaving, as if you were skinning yourself, getting rid of yourself. You peel yourself without wanting to “, explains André Célarié’s daughter in her book.
For fear of revealing her illness, she takes care of styling the few hair that remains to her: “I keep enough at the beginning to be able to pancake them, lacquer them, recreate them, release them and make me a completely bogus bun. ”
Invited by Laurent Delahousse in the newspaper of France 2 a few days after her hair loss, Clémentine Célarié decides to use a wig. Luckily, she finds “a hairpiece stack” of its color. “I’m doing a bun. Like it’s really autumn on my scalp, my leaves are falling, this hairpiece saves me. Nobody sees anything “, writes this committed woman well known for her outspokenness.