In a cross-interview given to Paris Match, for its edition of Thursday, May 14, 2020, Hélène Darroze and Jean-François Piège had shared their concerns about the coronavirus crisis. It must be said that restaurateurs and other chefs are particularly affected. “Debt to the neck”, Hélène Darroze thus uttered a real cry from the heart. The star chef owns three establishments: Marsan and Jòia in Paris, as well as The Connaught in London. Restaurants that he said were threatened after he stopped operating. The icing on the cake: Hélène Darroze was affected by the coronavirus. “And since, in addition, I grabbed the Covid, I was out of service, unable to move. It calmed me down! ”, she revealed to the magazine. An illness she experienced as “blow of the club. " She slides, like this: “It took me a few days to get over it. ” And obviously, the chief has not fully recovered from the disease. Guest on the show's set Click, presented by Mouloud Achour on Canal + Tuesday, May 26, 2020, Hélène Darroze detailed at length how the Covid-19 had affected it … and continued to affect it.
"It's not just a flu, I can assure you"
"Protect yourself. Honestly, it’s not funny, it’s not just a flu. This is something that really annoys, which can have consequences … ", first warns Hélène Darroze. "Well, I wonder how long it will last, until when I will be tired like this. Two days ago, I was still in bed. There are times when I'm doing great. I no longer have the virus, I am no longer contagious, we did all the tests, there is no problem, otherwise I would not be there. But it's not a joke. Then we saw what happened: these hospitals, these caregivers, how they were overwhelmed, overwhelmed, how they fell sick … It is not a simple flu, that, I can assure you . I woke up at the very beginning at 4 am with a headache that lasted 3 days, where I stayed in a state… Well, I was shot too, but a slightly semi-comatose state for 3 days at home, because I never went to the hospital. I’ve never had a headache like this in my life, it was something from another world. It lasted 3 days and my doctor afterwards told me that even very large migraine sufferers said that severe migraines, aside from this headache, are nothing at all. ”
"Will it take me back? I don't know"
Still a little stunned, Hélène Darroze continues, mentioning in particular the roller coasters that the coronavirus has subjected her to: “I tell because it's crazy… For 3 days, I couldn't get up, barely to go to the bathroom, but not to wash myself, I couldn't even drink, nothing […] there have been difficult times. There were these 3 days and overnight, you have a potato! And you don't understand, because you've got it wrong. But it’s really overnight, hour by hour. All of a sudden it's fine, it lasts 2 or 3 days, and bam, it comes back. Not as strong as this headache, that was really the pic. But incredible fatigue, a sore throat coming back, the joints, you have like big rheumatism. There were mornings when when I got up, I couldn't fold my hands anymore. I never had a fever, I felt like hot flashes. ” The famous chef concludes, with a nervous laugh: “There, it's been better, but it's been better for 3 days so I don't know, will it take me back? I do not know."A testimony that could vaccinate the most recalcitrant to the idea of protecting themselves.
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