Rare are the times when Michèle Laroque does not have a smile. However, at the age of 19, in 1979, the actress saw her life flash before her eyes and believed that she was never going to reopen them. Victim of a serious road accident, the great friend of Pierre Palmade and Muriel Robin almost never walked again…
“I heard everyone around me say: ‘She’s not going to walk again…’ I was never afraid, I always had confidence and I had a lot of patience. And I was lucky not to be angry, not to feel like a victim, not to be afraid. This accident was the start of everything. It was thanks to this accident that I understood, and that I said that I wanted to be an actress“, she tells Current wife. Strangely, this trauma will have been a blessing in disguise and made Michèle Laroque see life differently: “If you keep crying, victimizing, angry, you’re never going to get a chance to find out anything else. It’s an ordeal that brought me to this path of life, which is, I believe, really mine.“.
In the show 8:30 p.m. on Sunday on France 2, in 2019, Michèle Laroque had discussed in more detail the consequences of this accident. She physically took several years to recover: “I only really recovered after four years. A year without walking, a lot of operations, it was very long”, she explained to Laurent Delahousse. Four years earlier, she explained that she had put “two years before walking again“: “I had the femur in eighteen pieces. They had to cut off my leg. The nurses saved her by going to seek out a very good surgeon who had just arrived at the hospital.“. Close to amputation, Michèle Laroque finally regained control of her legs.
If she was very lucky in passing next to the worst, the father of her companion François Baroin, he did not survive the plane crash of which he was the victim. The politician had looked into the tragic disappearance of his father: “We were a family. There were four of us and then, almost overnight, we were two. […] When I get on a plane, I feel like I’m stepping into a coffin“, he confided in his biography written by Anne Fulda. The story does not say if Michèle Laroque has the same feeling when taking her place in a vehicle, but there is no doubt about it, given the pretty mantra she has adopted. since !