We know her in particular for her role in “Tomorrow belongs to us”, where she played judge Laurence Moiret until 2020. The actress Charlotte Valandrey, 53, announces on Instagram that she is waiting for a heart transplant. “My heart has come to an end and I am therefore waiting for the one who will be my 3rd”, she writes. “It can happen at any time. I need all your positive vibes. »
“I haven’t been in intensive care for a month for a history of medication”, begins the actress, thus wanting to cut short all the rumors around her state of health, when she had posted a photo at the end of May. her in a hospital bed. ” The warrior is less warrior “, she admits in her publication, posted on Wednesday.
Avant to play Laurence Moiret, between 2017 and 2020, in “Tomorrow belongs to us”, a soap opera broadcast on TF1, Charlotte Valandrey also played in “Les Cordier, magistrate et cop” and “Les Innocents”. In 2012, the actress also became director of season 9 of Star Academy, then broadcast on NRJ 12.
A second heart transplant
This is not the first time that Charlotte Valandrey finds herself in this situation. At 34, in 2002, the actress had already had to undergo a first heart transplant after suffering two heart attacks. HIV positive, she had seen her body weakened by the repeated intake of AZT, a drug used to treat HIV. Of her story, she had written a book published in 2005 – “Love in the Blood” – which had been adapted into a TV movie.
“Coming out of my transplant, I weighed 35 kg, I divorced, moved, I no longer had a job or a social life. It was a lot, “said the actress in March they have Gala stores, on the occasion of the release of his new book, “Reconcile with oneself”. “I held on, but I didn’t have a lot of self-esteem and, on several occasions, I wanted to stop everything,” she continued.
“Today, when a Stromae sings his depressionsuicidal thoughts or when Florent Pagny talks about his fight against cancer, we support them, we encourage them, and that’s good. Me, at the time, I was left all alone in my corner, ”she also lamented. By sharing his situation on social networks, that has changed. His post has since received hundreds of messages of support.