At 68, don’t talk to Carole Bouquet about retirement! However, the actress has suffered from terrible pain for 13 years but she continues to practice her profession despite everything.
TV, theater, cinema… Carole Bouquet is multiplying her projects, even though speaking is currently costing her physically. The cause? A heavy fall occurred in his house in the Pantelleria estate (Sicily), in 2013. At the time, the star went down “the obsidian stairs, hands in pockets, and laughing. My head went first“, she confided to Paris Match.
Carole Bouquet with a disabled mouth: “I can shoot because I have strategies”
Questioned by the magazine, while she has several projects under her belt including the film Tomorrow I fall in love and the series The lawyer (whose first title mentioned was Clean) for Netflix, Carole Bouquet agreed to lift the veil on the physical after-effects linked to her terrible fall. “I had many stitches in my face and cut a nerve in my mouth“, she said. Unfortunately, this cut nerve is causing her problems playing.
But no question of giving up! “I manage to shoot because I have strategies, like taking crushed ice or chewing gum. When I play in the theater (for example, she was last year in the play The Professor, editor’s note) I continue to have pain but I manage to deal with it. The paradox is there: I hurt because I talk, but I hurt less because I am distracted from my pain“, she added.
Carole Bouquet suffers from trigeminal neuralgia: “I tried in vain…”
The actress and ex-partner of Gérard Depardieu is a victim of trigeminal neuralgia, a pathology which is characterized by intense facial pain. “I have tried everything that exists in vain (…) but I do not despair of overcoming my suffering in the near future.” she said.
Moreover, the actress who won a Cesar for Too beautiful for you lends itself to hospital treatment while it happens to him “to stay motionless in (his) room, all day, because of (his) pain.“
Carole Bouquet, proud mother of Dimitri Rassam and Louis Giacobetti, refuses to give up in the face of her health problem and evokes several reasons for this combative attitude: “My character, my father, my children. I think of my father, a pure product of republican meritocracy (…) I have the impression of remaining faithful to his heritage, by not giving up.“
