“I had a wig. I took it off”, the rare confidences of Evelyne Dhéliat on her fight against breast cancer

Since 1991, she has been the essential weather presenter who accompanies the news. But on Monday, June 5, 2023, it’s on the set of 12 noon shotsthat viewers will be surprised to discover it. Evelyne Dheliat will indeed be present with Jean-Luc Reichmann and the candidates to highlight the operation “Cancer mobilization, all together withResearchers”. An event organized in association with the Gustave-Roussy center and the Arc Foundation which is close to the heart of the 75-year-old presenter for having had breast cancer herself eleven years ago. She will therefore be present to encourage calls for donations and altruism from fans of the show. For magazine Tele-Leisure, the head of the weather service, usually so discreet, agreed to talk about her own ordeal which she had tried to ignore at the time. “I felt it was something very personal and that I didn’t necessarily have to talk about it or that there was no reason to dwell on my fate.Despite this discretion, some viewers had noticed that something abnormal was happening, even though she had undergone surgery during “summer vacation” considering that “it would go unnoticed”: We saw that I had a wig. I took it off, didn’t want to communicate so that it wouldn’t be taken up too much by a certain press. I have always made a separation between my professional life and my private life.she explains modestly.

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“It touched me. I felt the responsibility to do so”

Despite everything, treatment obliges, Evelyne Dhéliat was forced to stop for a certain time the presentation of her weather program. An absence deplored by viewers, “But afterwards, we had to continue the treatments, I couldn’t come back right away”,she explains, but to point out that the public support has been tremendous: “Viewers called TF1 and sent emails to ask what was going on and so we communicated on it. It was mutual support”. Today, Evelyne Dhéliat finds it very important to communicate about her ordeal to raise awareness of screening and help research. Since 2022, she has been the godmother of Operation Pink October. “I responded favorably because I had heard doctors say he was important that known people of the public talk about it, particularly about screening. It touched me. I felt the responsibility to do so.”

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