Évelyne Dhéliat speaks for the first time about her breast cancer, detected 10 years ago, and which she wanted to keep secret at the time for personal reasons.
Pink Ribbon Campaign Ambassador This year, Evelyne Dheliat has spoken out several times in recent days to raise women’s awareness of breast cancer. It was on this occasion that she recalled the importance of screening, in particular of having recourse to mammography every two years from the age of 50 to fight against this disease.
In her speech, she also wanted to be reassuring since she also underlined that “90% of breast cancers are cured with early detection”. “Today I feel it is my duty to communicate on prevention. Frequently, I have indeed heard doctors and teachers say that the scope of this message is often reinforced if it comes from people with a certain reputation among of the public. So, please ladies, get yourselves followed: prevention saves lives” she hammered on the occasion of Pink October, in particular for TV Star.
The weather presenter of the first channel spoke more widely about the disease during this last interview published on Monday, October 10, having herself been affected by breast cancer ten years ago now. Whether she conquered the disease, she had remained very discreet about her painful fight at the timeand give reasons. “When I had my cancer in 2012, I didn’t want to communicate because it was personal” she first insisted, before adding: “I didn’t want to flaunt myself, to whine. On the contrary, I had to fight”. Finally, feeling invested with a mission, Évelyne Dhéliat added that today she was “proud to participate in this prevention campaign”.
Show your boobs to your doctors
During this same interview and as she had already done, Évelyne Dhéliat also recalled that she was not the only personality to promote the Pink Ribbon campaign this year. “I would like to point out that there are three of us with Claudia Tagbo and Alice Detollenaere” she said, wanting to use her notoriety and that of the other two ambassadors to defend the slogan “Show your boobs to your doctors”.
If the year 2012 had been very difficult, the year 2022 is also difficult for the host of TF1 since she lost a great friend last winter: Jean-Pierre Pernaut, victim of lung cancer. We remember her heartbreaking letter published on the occasion of his funeral and the tributes she had also paid him.