Nathalie Baye has left us. The 77-year-old actress died of a terrible illness. When she was younger, she suffered from two disorders: which ones?
It’s a huge loss for French cinema. Nathalie Baye died after discreetly battling Lewy body disease, revealed her family, including actress Laura Smet. If the star of the films Absolutely Fabulous And The Guardians had said nothing publicly about her illness, she had on the other hand several times mentioned these two disorders discovered in her youth.
Indeed, Nathalie Baye suffered from dyslexia and dyscalculia. A handicap which forced the star, daughter of a couple of painters, to abandon school relatively early, precisely at only 14 years old. Reading, particularly literature for which she had developed a passion during her life thanks to her ex-partner Philippe Léotard, had helped her a lot.
His big weak point? Proper names. “I still have great difficulty with proper nouns. If I meet a Mr. Trianon, I will call him ‘Mr. Triton’… When I learn my lines or when I play, there is no longer a problem“, she said in an interview for The Sunday Journalin 2022.
In addition to this problem, the late Nathalie Baye also had a problem with numbers. “Dyscalculia is more annoying“, added the actress to JDDrevealing for example that he one day lost his bank card in a machine after confusing his credit card code with that of his building. And Johnny Hallyday’s former partner added: “Apart from my daughter’s, I don’t remember any birthdays, not even my own. Someone wished me one day by SMS and I didn’t know what they were talking to me about.” Had she managed to remember her grandson Léo’s birthday?
Moreover, the one who had received no less than 4 Césars during her acting career started in the 1970s, was also claustrophobic! An evil against which she had tried many things. “I’ve been trying to treat myself with hypnosis for a long time, and it works quite well. When an elevator is large and glassy, it’s okay; otherwise, I feel like I’m locked in a vertical coffin“, she said frankly in the pages of Marie-Clairein 2020.
