Catherine Deneuve suffers stroke: actress not surprised by characteristic symptoms

In 2019, Catherine Deneuve had suffered a stroke. The actress had felt the first symptoms in the middle of filming, as she has just confided in an interview with Vanity Fair.

© Jacovides-Moreau/Bestimage Catherine Deneuve during the red carpet of the film L'Amour ouf at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, May 23, 2024.

IN BRIEF

• Catherine Deneuve was victim of a stroke in 2019.
• During the filming of the movie De son vivant, the actress felt the first symptoms.
• In an interview published in Vanity Fair this Wednesday, January 22, Catherine Deneuve returned to this painful experience.

She is one of the French actresses of her generation who surprises by the longevity of her film career. Catherine Deneuve has never left the film sets. Between two films, she even allows herself appearances in music videos and in advertisements. At 81, the heroine of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg assumes her choices, between independent films and popular comedies.

Last May, she was chosen to preside over the Cannes Film Festival on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the event organized each year on the Croisette. Catherine Deneuve is indeed an essential French artist who has gone through difficult stagesin recent years. In 2019, a stroke struck the mother of Chiara Mastroianni.

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Catherine Deneuve victim of a stroke: these symptoms that alerted the actress…

In an interview given to Vanity Fair and published this Wednesday, January 22, Catherine Deneuve explained to have felt the symptoms of this stroke. At the time, the French actress was filming the film by Emmanuelle Bercot, De while he was alive, in a suburban hospital. “I had some hesitations about my text, memory lapses. I said it. They immediately realized that something was wrong and they reacted”, she revealed.

Catherine Deneuve was then é neat é Rothschild Hospital, located &agrav; Paris, before being transferred to Les Invalides, where she will spend three weeks of convalescence in a morbid atmosphere.

Catherine Deneuve remains marked by her hospitalization

During his stay at At the Invalides hospital, Catherine Deneuve will try to recover all her physical and mental faculties, she who passed through a beautiful door. If she gets back on her feet quickly, she will also be marked by images.

“See all these young men wounded, amputees, these soldiers in this state… There was one who was always lying on his back, on a stretcher, he could no longer walk. He had made a jump and his parachute had not opened. He was looking at the sky, at the dome and he was smoking. He was beautiful. Seeing this is difficult“, she explained to Vanity Fair. Since then, Catherine Deneuve has continued to work on her memory with a speech therapist and using his cell phone when his memory fails him.