his career shattered too soon

“I wanted to be unique.” On July 13, actress and host Charlotte Valandrey passed away at the age of 53. HIV-positive since age 17, she had to undergo a first heart transplant in 2003, as a result of her triple therapy which had damaged her. On June 8, she announced that she was waiting for a second heart transplant at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital. On June 14, she received a transplant that did not unfortunately not taken.

Revealed at the age of 16, Charlotte Valandrey was considered a rising star of cinema after her role in Red Kiss by Vera Belmont. A well-known notoriety “too young”she admitted in 2005 in an interview with The Express. Despite this popularity, the competition is fierce for the young actress. “I wanted to be unique, apart, recognized”, she recalls. However, at the time, the competition was huge. “I was one of the two or three actresses of my generation, with Sophie Marceau and Charlotte Gainsbourg, who were popular”, she assures. It’s finally when she’s replaced by Vanessa Paradis in white wedding that she starts to “give up” and give up on his film career.

Charlotte Valandrey victim of rumors

In 1989, Jean-Claude Brisseau released the film white wedding. In the main role, Vanessa Paradis plays for the first time in the cinema. For her interpretation, she won the César for best female hope in 1990. However, originally it is good Charlotte Valandrey who had been cast in the role. As the filming is about to begin, she confides to the director that she is HIV positive. According to her, the production refuses to insure her and chooses another actress without even telling her. According to the director, it is above all a casting choice. “If I had made this film, Noce blanche, I sincerely believe that my career would have been different”, she explained to The Express. Following this experience, she turned to television and radio. “Something had broken, the cinema had left me”she assures.

Subsequently, rumors about him will be obstacles to his career. Before getting his role in the series Les Cordiers, judge and copher “reputation” gets in his way. “They said I was a bit of a pain in the ass, a bit on drugs, not in great shape. Gaining weight, losing weight, not going out… weird, isn’t it? She must be on drugs”, she remembers. It was not until 2005, in her book L’Amour dans le sang, that she revealed that she was HIV-positive.