At 54, actress and writer Charlotte Valandrey announced in a video that she was awaiting a new heart transplant. She had already had to undergo a first transplant in 2003 after several heart attacks, as La Voix du Nord recalls. A test of life that she recounts in the novel Of unknown heart. as well as in Every day I listen to my heart beat.
A heart that has been damaged in particular because of her treatment against HIV, which she has been carrying since the age of 18. This is the subject of his first novel, autobiographical, released in 2005 and which will be adapted into a TV movie, L’Amour dans le sang.
On May 30, she had indicated to 61,000 subscribers that she was in the hospital for “a little while”. She then shared a photo of seagulls taken in Le Touquet, she says, envying their freedom. And then two days ago, she decided to explain the reasons for her hospitalization. His second heart has arrived “at the end of the race”: “So I’m waiting for the one who will be my 3rd heart. It can happen at any time”, she explained to her Instagram subscribers in a short text where she also asks for positive vibes and prayers because “the warrior is a little less warrior”.
The actress, awarded a Silver Bear at the Berlin festival at the age of 16, became a popular television figure by playing the Cordier girl in the series “Cordier, magistrate and cop”. She also played alongside Ingrid Chauvin in “Tomorrow belongs to us”.