It is a fight that Clémentine Célarié has kept secret for a long time. In 2019, when she learned that she had colon cancer, a disease against which she had fought for three years, the 65-year-old woman decided not to tell her family and especially her friends. parents first. “It’s a personal choice. Me, I wanted to keep it, I didn’t tell my parents. I think I was oblivious and protected by the passion for my job.”explained the actress in a “Sunday in the countryside” on France 2 on Sunday March 5, 2023.
An ordeal that Clémentine Célarié finally decided to tell in her book “Les MotsDefends”, published by Albin Michel. A book in which she looks back on her fight, but in which she also expresses her gratitude at the idea of having come out of it alive: “When you had cancer, you are like a forest fire. When you’re cured of something like that, you’re so grateful to life that we’re not going to waste time.”she confided.
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“It’s a gift when you get out of it”
Invited to the program “Télématin” this Wednesday, April 5, 2023, the actress also returned to her illness which allowed her to see life with another eye and to be more combative. “I expect a lot from life, but I don’t expect things to happen by themselves. I always tell myself that an ordeal is a gift when you come out of it. Especially a health ordeal like cancer. Because we are growing she said facing Thomas Sotto and Julia Vignali.
“My life is not over! Especially after a cancer that is cured. I would even say that it starts again on the hats of wheels”, she already explained a few weeks earlier on the airwaves of France Inter. At 65, the actress has also returned to the paths of film sets…
“I expect a lot from life, but I don’t expect things to happen on their own” Clémentine Célarié talks about her cancer, which she considers a “gift” #Telematinpic.twitter.com/sEyjlVYOJY
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