Three years after the death of her mother Marthe Mercadier, Véronique Néry still suffers from her absence. Especially since she had to take care of the actress during the last years of her life…
When Marthe Mercadier was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, her daughter Véronique, who was also her press officer, had a real shock. “I collapsed“, she confided in an interview with Gala. If her famous mother passed away in 2021, the last years of her life were very trying for Véronique…
Véronique, Marthe Mercadier’s daughter: “I washed her, I changed her diapers…”
The first symptoms of the disease appeared when the actress was writing her book with Alain Morel I will gloat until I’m 100 years old!, released in 2011. The actress’s agent then advised Véronique to go to the Salpêtrière hospital with her mother so that she could have examinations. But Marthe Mercadier’s daughter was in “denial“…until the ax falls.”Following this announcement, I had algodystrophy, that is to say paralysis on the left side. I understood that I now had to take charge of everything and that I was becoming my mother’s mother.“, she confided.
From then on, everything changed for Véronique. She had to take care of her mother and her daily life became extremely “complicated“.”I washed her, I changed her diapers, I cooked her food… I did everything. One day we both fell in the bathtub, and I thought I needed help.”told the story of the one born from the union between Marthe Mercadier and the actor Gérard Néry.
Marthe Mercadier: Her daughter still very affected by her death, she is “on anti-depressants”
Now aged 63, the late actress’s daughter is still on antidepressants, three years after her mother’s death: “I have had neurological problems since, although I can still work“But Marthe Mercadier did not fear death. “Mom was a great medium, she received a lot of messages from the beyond, so she never feared it. On the contrary“, clarified Véronique Néry.
The actress breathed her last at the Puteaux hospital, in Île-de-France: “As she was very sensitive to esotericism, I brought in a friend who organized a ritual to allow her to leave into the light. We left her at 11 p.m. and she died at 5 a.m.“.
