It’s no secret that Mylène Demongeot is a fighter and isn’t one to let bad news sink in. Even the worst, moreover: affected by the recurrence of her cancer since the beginning of spring, the actress did not collapse before the announcement of the doctors.
“I came back from my trip to Senegal at the end of March, everything was fine. In mid-May, I went to the control visit that I have to do twice a year and there… crash!she says in particular in an interview in France Sunday. It was back! However, I was going there with confidence before I was told of the recurrence. It’s still a hell of a crap this thing! You think you’re cured and all of a sudden, it’s gone again… it’s endless. So I started chemo. But after I don’t know how many sessions between June, July and August, I was at my wit’s end, it was killing me.“
I am full of hope!
Worn out by the treatments, she was very clear with the doctors: “Yes, you are trying to heal me, I told them, but at the same time, you are killing me! I could not any more.” “So exhausted” she has “begged the doctors to stop everything“, the 87-year-old actress ended up finding a new treatment that would suit her better, immunotherapy.
“It’s a process that apparently works wonders – I know at least four people who are completely cured thanks to this – and especially who do not exhaust you like chemo. So I’m crossing my fingers. I would love for it to work, to stop relapsing every six months. Because I swear to you, it’s unbearable!“, she still confides in France Sunday. A new protocol in which she believes, keeping her usual faith in the future despite the hardships.
“We have very good feedback, so I am hopeful! If so many people got away with it, why not me? I still have a respondent!” she asserts with humor and frankness. Especially since the actress, who now lives between her property in the countryside and Senegal, a country she adores, is teeming with film projects.
I have two movies to shoot
If she could not travel to Nice for a tribute to her career and a screening of two of her films because of her treatment and had to celebrate her 87th birthday at home, in the countryside, with her twelve cats and her closest friends, she is however getting ready to dive back into the cinema when the treatment is finished and she will be able to move again. And in particular thanks to the result of Retirement homewith Kevin Adams.
“I have two films to shoot, so I have absolutely no time to be sick! I had Kev Adams a few days ago, he’s been working hard on writing this new screenplay, which I can’t wait to discover. Do you see why I’m trying to heal?“, she concludes with humor.