A religious tribute was paid Thursday, October 6 to Charlotte Valandrey, who died on July 13. Back on an extraordinary story experienced by the actress, who would have had a romance with the husband of her organ donor.
She passed away on July 13., at the age of 53. The disappearance of actress Charlotte Valandrey deeply mourned the world of French cinema. the actress, diagnosed with HIV at the age of 17, was the victim, during his life, of two heart attacks. His heavy processing against the disease had indeed weakened his heart. Transplanted with a first heart at the age of 34, she was to receive a second before her death. But this transplant did not take, and it was at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris that she breathed her last. This Thursday, October 6, a religious tribute was returned to him in the Saint François-Xavier church in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.
In parallel with his career in cinema and television, the ex-star of the series Les Cordiers, judge and cop also have published several booksas love in the blood, in 2005, in which she revealed her HIV status and recounted the two heart attacks that almost cost her her life. Six years later, in 2011, Charlotte Valandrey released a new book, Of unknown heartin which she notably returned to the love story she had with a certain Yannwhom she suspected ofbe the husband of your organ donor…
“I know the heart that beats in you”
The strange story begins with anonymous letters that a mysterious man sent to Charlotte Valandrey, after the publication of her autobiography in 2005. “I know the heart that beats in you, I loved it…”was it written in a first missive, recalls Pure people. More letters followed… “Three letters, in total, written by an anonymous man who assures me that I carry the heart of his missing wife and who speaks to her through me. He tells me that his wife died in Paris in a car accident on the night of November 3 to 4, 2003, a few hours before my transplant at “X” hospital.she said in 2011 to The Express.
Charlotte Valandrey could not then know the identity of her donor, nor of her husband because of “the bioethics law of 2004 [qui] enforce total secrecy“. But two years later, an encounter will change his life. An unknown man, who regularly comes to see her play on the boards in the room The memory of waterin Paris, approached him. “His name is Yann, says he is divorced. We fall in love. Everything is going very well until the day when, a little later, finding myself alone at his house, I open his secretary, pushed by an intuition”confided the actress to The Express.
The unexpected discovery of Charlotte Valandrey
She then makes an unexpected discovery: “The, I come across a file, with a death certificate from Hospital X and a newspaper article mentioning the accident at Place de la Nation ; I understand then that Yann is the husband of the young woman who died that evening.” Charlotte Valandrey, shaken by this discovery, then took “a huge slap”. “This story is certainly not for nothing in the third heart attack which fell on me shortly after and from which I fortunately recovered very well”, she said. An extraordinary story that left a lasting mark on the actress.
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