She often has a smile on her face, but her journey has not always been easy. Far from there. At 19, Charlotte Valandrey discovered that she was HIV positive and had to cope with the virus, somehow, in solitude. Guest on the set of the show It starts todayon France 2 on Friday March 25, 2022, the former heroine of the series tomorrow belongs to us agreed to say more about this painful time.
“When I found out… you are given 6 months to liveshe reminded Faustine Bollaert. You are 18 years old and you do not understand what is happening to you. I did a 360 degree turn and fell into oblivion and denial. But luckily I did that because I wouldn’t have made it. It was the law of silence. It was not necessary to talk about it at that time, my parents had asked me. It chokes you. I needed to be transparent and helped in this ordeal.“For ten years, Charlotte Valandrey did not feel the consequences of her condition. It was only in 1996 that she had to start taking triple therapy.
He told me that I saved his life
Once she released her word, Charlotte Valandrey became a kind of standard bearer, despite herself. She has released several books about her health, from HIV to this heart transplant she had to undergo in 2002 following two heart attacks. “I became a bearer of hope from the booksrecalls Tara’s mother. Little by little, people came more and more because it gave them hope, I said to myself: ‘Okay, it’s hard next door but you have a semblance of a mission, you do that ‘. And then there are people who came to see me, on the first two books. There is one, I remember, he was downstairs from my house…“
The emotion was too strong for Charlotte Valandrey, who had to stop speaking for a moment to dry her tears and regain some composure. “He told me that I actually saved his lifeshe continued with tremolos in her voice. A lot of people have come to see me like that. At the time, we don’t really realize it. Because it’s the first time it’s moved me. I have a lot of trouble being proud of myself, I didn’t want to, I wasn’t able…“