“I experienced the three D's”: Valérie Kaprisky reveals having gone through a severe depression, the causes of which are as follows

On Thursday, January 16, 2025, Valérie Kaprisky gave an interview to Gala. During the interview, the 62-year-old actress revealed that she had experienced severe depression when her divorce was acté.

© BestImage Valérie Kaprisky throughé a severe depression.

IN BRIEF

• Valérie Kaprisky, French actress, experienced a painful separation from her composer husband after 23 years of living together, revealed during an interview with Gala on January 16, 2025.
• She went through a difficult period marked by a divorce, a bereavement and a move, leading to a two-year depression, but was supported by her friends.
• Find out how Valérie Kaprisky overcame these ordeals and her view on motherhood and social pressure in this article.

An extremely difficult period… Since the end of the 1990s, Valérie Kaprisky és been in a relationship with a successful documentary music composer. For Gala, she confided a few years ago: “As long as I have him by my side, I can handle everything else being random“, before specifying: “He's a deeply kind man, like me”. Although the couple spent many years together, they eventually broke up.

On Thursday, January 16, 2025, in an interview with Gala, the actress explained that this separation had affected her enormously. “I experienced the three Ds: grief, divorce and moving in a very short time and I fell into a depression for two years. If I had died at that time, it wouldn't have bothered me. Fortunately, I was surrounded by wonderful friends. I believe strongly in women helping each other, in there sorority”.

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Valérie Kaprisky: “Çit has impacted our life as a couple”

While she did not experience motherhood, the 62-year-old actress said: : “I still haven't gotten over not having had children. When I met my ex-husband, I had 37 years old. I didn't want to put pressure on him at first, because he already had two children. Then we experienced the journey of the fighting with injections, an insemination… It didn't work. And it impacted our life as a couple. I was menopause at 48 years”.

However, she was lucky enough to have stepchildren with whom she ;hears very well. “I lived with them for 22 years. We have a beautiful relationship and I hope I will soon t be able to babysit when they become parents in turn. For my part, I had the maternal instinct, but I respect women who don't want children”, she said before adding: “I find the way society looks at those who don't have any unbearable. We are sometimes considered as pariahs”.

A first burnout at 22 years old

In 1984, the actress was revealed in the film La femme publique. At the time, she had a hard time dealing with her notoriety. “When Femme publique came out, I don't I didn't expect people to talk so much about my nude scenes. I had worked a lot and the only thing people remembered was my ass. No one dared to attack the director and I became the ideal target. I had no one to answer for. (…) I was perceived as a hysterical and provocative girl, while I was complexed and uncomfortable in my own skin”, she had indicated to Elle magazine.

For Le Parisien, Valérie Kaprisky had added: “These are heavy memories, which give me tachycardia. I was so exposed. I even had a burnout at 22 years after the Public Woman. I spent my Cannes Film Festival holed up in my room with a doctor who injected me with sedatives”.