Tomorrow is Ours actress dies aged 53

His new heart didn’t hold up. The famous actress, seen in the series Tomorrow belongs to us on TF1 passed away at the age of 53. His agent announced his death to AFP. this Wednesday, July 13. It had been several weeks that Charlotte Valendrey was hospitalized in Paris. She has spent the past month in intensive care awaiting a new heart, her third.

“My heart has come to an end and I am therefore waiting for the one who will be my 3rd heart. It can happen at any time. I need all your positive vibes. Of love, of kindness, of your prayers. Because the Warrior is less Warrior…” she had written in early June to her fans on Instagram. A few days later, this long-awaited new heart finally arrived. “That’s wonderful. Thank you for all your prayers. They heard you. I will never forget him” had shared the actress on social networks. Although the transplant was a success, the new body did not hold up.

Charlotte Valendrey, a life marked by HIV

Contaminated with HIV at the age of 18, Charlotte Valendrey speaks about it publicly in 2005 in a book entitled Love in blood. “Me, it frees me, I hope it will free people” she confided in an interview for the Express. “The reflex, at first, is to live in hiding with HIV. Never say anything to anyone (…) But I can only rebuild myself by telling the truth. I was contaminated by loving: it is not a fault. I’m not guilty of arousing desire, not guilty of looking for love too soon. Guilty of nothing!” explained Charlotte Valendrey. After the release of his book, his work was adapted for the small screen and his story is unveiled in a TV movie broadcast on France 2. The actress has also been very involved in the cause of organ donation and transplantation and has become a godmother of the Greffe et vie foundation. The former headliner of the TF1 soap opera didn’t have it easy. “I held on, but I didn’t have a lot of self-esteem and, on several occasions, I wanted to stop everything” she confessed in an interview for Gala last March. Although weakened lately, she took the time to give her news to her fans, to whom she remained very close until the end.