By advocating treatment with hydroxychloroquine to treat patients with Covid-19, Didier Raoult has become one of the most controversial faces of the pandemic. Strongly criticized following his speeches or his meeting with Emmanuel Macron, the Marseille infectiologist is supported by Christian Estrosi and his wife Laura Tenoudji, but also the humorist Jean-Marie Bigard, the actor Christophe Cantona, or again Laeticia Hallyday. Among the many personalities on his side, Mylène Demongeot defends him loud and clear.
At the microphone of RTL, on Wednesday June 10, the 87-year-old actress begins by warning: “I am ready to shout it everywhere because I see that it is bothered as it is not allowed”. On its streak, it reveals: “I owe him my life. So I say thank you, professor! " Last April Mylène Demongeot told in the columns of West France, having been hospitalized in an emergency with 40 ° C of fever at the Laval hospital in Mayenne, near her home.
"I was somewhere between life and death "
When she has just emerged from peritoneal cancer, doctors are reluctant to intubate her and put her in intensive care. “They put me in a bed and there, the doctors were quite pessimistic. In fact, they didn't see me spending the week. I was somewhere between life and death […]. I was taken down to the scanner to explain to me that my lungs were in a terrible state… ”
Supported by the nursing staff, she fights following the protocol designed by Pr Raoult. After a long month of rehabilitation to strengthen the muscles of her legs, Mylène Demongeot explains: “I almost died, but I'm fine. I'm still weak on the immune system, so I have to be very careful. I am going to return to Paris these days to resume filming my film and I will wear a mask… ”.
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