Camille Combal: “to have only one eye …”, this surgical operation that the host will have to undergo: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

Camille Combal is a presenter who needs no introduction. Nearly 17 years ago, the latter began his career as a radio host before turning to television. Viewers can find him leading entertainment shows on TF1 and it is unanimous. guest of We redo the TV on RTL, Saturday September 2, 2023, Camille Combal spoke about her daily life. He notably shared the genetic disease he suffers from…. keratoconus. “It sounds like the name of a dessert in Italian”, was he amused at first, later specifying that it is a “manufacturing defect” at the level of the retina. Camille Combal has had to live with it since birth. “Instead of being concave, it is convex. It’s a disease that evolves until I have me, having to have my cornea transplanted”, said the host who adds: “Aesthetically, it’s quite disturbing.” To cure this disease, Camille Combal will have to have an operation. “It’s a corneal transplant and I’m expecting another for the right side”, he confided.

Camille Combal: the host is waiting for a donor

A few years ago, Camille Combal underwent first eye surgery. A necessary operation but for which the convalescence was complicated. Indeed, the host had difficulty returning to the television sets, because of the light. “It bothers photophobia. When I did it, we were in the middle of the TPMP season so afterwards we looked like Farès in ‘Rabbi Jacob’. I must have had sunglasses for a year on TV”, he remembered, very amused. “It’s a bit like what you have when you have conjunctivitis for the first few days. You can no longer look at the sun. So yes, aesthetically, we’re not going to lie to each other, it’s quite disturbing. Having only one eye is not practical“, then clarified Camille Combal. For his second operation, the facilitator is waiting to find a donor. “It’s a disease that we barely treated thirty years ago. We lived like that with eyes where you can’t see anything at all. There’s still a lot of work to do”he recalled, later saying: “When there is a compatible donor, you have to go to the block”, concluded Camille Combal.