If the general public knows
Clémentine Célarié
for her humor and her outspokenness, she also revealed that she went through a painful period a few years ago: colon cancer.
An illness that she hid from those close to her for many months.
“I didn't want them to have the weight
,” she explains to Isabelle Ithurburu in the portrait of the week on “50'Inside” broadcast this Saturday March 16 on TF1.
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“I was told not to say it, that no one would be interested. So we have to talk about it, if we want to. The more we know about it, the more people will know what it is. »
The actress, however, does not regret having herself hidden this truth from those around her.
“Ah no, I regret not having kissed a man I met who was very handsome but I can't regret things like that.
For me it's sterile.
Regret, it’s no use.”
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“You’re going to think I’m crazy but…”
Isabelle Ithurburu then seeks to know where this strength of character present in Clémentine Célarié comes from.
“Do we live even stronger when we have had this fear of dying?”
the journalist asks.
Question to which she answers without filter.
“You'll think I'm crazy, but I've never been afraid of dying.
I do not know why.
I'm afraid of hurting my children, my mother, my brothers and all that.
Because I will never truly get rid of this cancer but I say that, I don't care.
It’s just that I live with a kind of shadow but that’s how it is and it gives me strength.”
And this thirst for life and being positive in all circumstances has the merit of surprising those around her, to the point of wondering if she is ever tired.
“There are times when I'm completely... like an old woodlice, a beached whale, of course.
But less so now because I tell myself that I'm lucky.
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On the other hand, the actress sometimes feels “lost” as she confides to her interviewer.
“I never go to see a psychologist.
I want to solve everything on my own and I want to use everything I experience for my passion, my work.
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