As he promotes his play Even and lacking, on which he collaborates with his new companion, Christian Vadim has agreed to give an interview for the magazine Close. The actor notably returned to the stroke of his mother Catherine Deneuve.
In November 2019, while she was shooting the film In his lifetime directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, Catherine Deneuve was the victim of a stroke. Quickly taken care of, the star was finally able to return home in December. A vivid memory for Christian Vadim. “My sister [Chiara Mastroianni, NDLR] called me, crying. There it was a blow of the club, because you don’t know what happened, what will happen, what the consequences will be. For a month, when I woke up, when I deactivated the airplane mode of my laptop set for the night, I was taking a deep breath because I was dreading the newsLuckily, his mother’s stroke was less severe than he feared.
Indeed, Christian Vadim remembers that during his first visits to his mother at the Rothschild hospital (12th arrondissement of Paris), he had noticed that the rumors about his supposed loss of speech were unfounded. “She spoke. With difficulty, of course, but it was normal in his situation“, he specifies, adding that his mother had indeed had the first symptoms of her stroke without realizing it when she had had a loss of memory on the set of her film, being unable to remember a dialogue. “When my mother left the Rothschild hospital for the Invalides hospital for her rehabilitation, we knew that there was nothing more to fear.“, he adds.
And, in fact, Catherine Deneuve has since made her big media comeback, multiplying appearances as for an evening at Louis Vuitton or at the Cannes Film Festival. “Even though I was hardly touched, I took a long time to recover exactly, to be sure that everything was perfectly in its place.“, however, she recently told the magazine. SHE.
Close, edition of November 12, 2021.