At 61, Michèle Laroque signs her third film as a director. “So we dance” was released in theaters this Wednesday, March 16, 2022 and the actress talks about her passion for dance. However, the French actress almost couldn’t use her legs anymore, following a terrible accident in 1979, when she was 19 years old.
“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” the actress told Femme Actuelle. “If you keep crying, being victimized, being 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.“. she adds.
In 2019, on the set of the show “8:30 p.m. on Sunday” on France 2, the one who is the mother of a girl named Oriane, came back to this drama: “I only really recovered after four years. A year without walking, a lot of operations, it was very long” she had explained to Laurent Delahousse. “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.” she remembered, specifying that she had come close to being amputated.
In July 2021, the actress then surprised public opinion by confiding in her drug addiction, to Karine Le Marchand.
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