What is Camille Combal suffering from? The TF1 star host reveals the rare genetic disease that affects him and what it means for him on a daily basis.
Camille Combal will have to have surgery again. The animator is currently on the rise on TF1 : he replaced Nikos Aliagas during the last NRJ Music Awardspresents the new version of A gold family and is still facing the jury of Mask Singer, which recently hosted Spice Girl Mel B, every Friday night. But from a personal point of view, he faces some difficulties.
Discreet about his private life, he had made rare revelations about the delivery of his wife and today says more about the disease from which he suffers, certainly less painful than that of the singer Celine Dion, but which can be disabling. For the podcast of Parisianit explains what keratoconus, a deformation of the cornea that can progressand where it is in the treatment of this affection which affects the sight.
What’s next after this ad
Camille Combal: what her illness entails on a daily basis
Camille Combal explains: “It is a genetic disease, which I have from birth, which can be quite common, which it was not possible to treat at all before. Today, they succeed with corneal transplants“. In 2015, the host had to have his left eye transplanted But it was not enough : “I have to do law now, I have the other eye to transplant. My two eyes are affected so I have to do the second one”.
If he talks about it, it’s also for one reason in particular: organ donation. “I try to raise awareness as much as possible. You should know that today it is something that is very, very important“, he reveals. Camille Combal admits, however: “things have changed a bit, now you are a donor no matter what, unless you don’t want it and then you have to specify it”. He also explains that he has to respect certain prohibitions now: “There is a charter when you receive an organ from someone. Me it’s the eyes, well I shouldn’t go diving, I shouldn’t fight with someone in the street…”. Precautions to take in your everyday life.