It’s a loss that still tears her heart in 2022. Two decades ago, in May 2002, Laurette Fugain died after battling leukemia for 11 months. If she has transformed this pain into strength, and that she tries to advance research thanks to the Laurette Fugain association, in particular with the help of the Gifts of Life, Stéphanie Fugain remains a mother with a broken soul. That’s what she said, passing through the show At Jordan’sbroadcast by Entertainment TVexplaining in particular that she still kept certain objects of her daughter, who died at the age of 22, in order to be able to feel her presence.
When we lose a child, we tell ourselves that we will no longer smell his perfume
“When you lose a child, there comes a time when you rebuild a life with memories, says Stephanie Fugain. I live permanently in the presence of objects having belonged to Laurette. I needed it, a lot. When we lose a child, we tell ourselves that we will no longer smell his perfume, that we will no longer smell his scent. So I’m not hiding from you that I have her perfume lying around my house. Mary has her perfume too.” Divorced since 2011, Stéphanie and Michel Fugain had two other children together. The actress Marie Fugain, who is now 48 years old, and Alexis, 29 years old. Everyone has since experienced this mourning in their own way.
I believed in it until the end
In evoking her late daughter, Stéphanie Fugain could not help but remember, with pain, the last moments spent by her side. Of this long period of “fight, treatments and doubts“. “I believed in it until the end, even if the doctors told me: ‘It’s over, you have to bring your husband’. JI said to myself ‘But we never give up. Not us,’ she says. I don’t know any family, or parents not devastated when they lose a child. Afterwards the most difficult thing is to bounce back, it is to move forward and it is also to protect the other children, the brothers and sisters who always live a little behind because it is difficult to be everywhere…”