CHARLOTTE VALANDREY. This Wednesday July 13, 2022, actress Charlotte Valandrey died at the age of 53, her family announced. She had undergone a heart transplant last June.
[Mis à jour le 13 juillet 2022 à 23h28] This Wednesday July 13, 2022, Charlotte Valandrey, whose real name is Anne-Charlotte Pascale, died at the age of 53. The actress, particularly known for her role in the television series “Les Cordier judge et cop” and “Tomorrow belongs to us”, had been living with the AIDS virus for decades. Her father, sister and daughter explained the reasons for her death in a press release: “On June 14, Charlotte had to undergo emergency surgery to replace her used heart as she called it but this new transplant did not take, this third heart did not live.
Indeed, since the age of 17, the actress had been fighting against the disease. Shortly before her eighteenth birthday, she contracted AIDS. We will never know the person at the origin of this contamination. The main interested party will still indicate during an interview that it was a “Gothic prince”, a member of a rock group that was well established at that time.
Being HIV-positive, Charlotte Valandrey sees herself dying young. At least that’s what the doctors told him then. Chaining treatments against HIV had a direct impact on his cardiac capacities. In 2003, the “Red Kiss” actress suffered two heart attacks. His heart therefore had to be “replaced”. On June 14, Charlotte Valandrey announced on her Instagram account that she was going to undergo a new heart transplant: “My heart has come to the end of its course and I am therefore waiting for the one who will be my 3rd”, she wrote. on the social network.
In the press release, her father, sister and daughter recount the last moments of Charlotte Valandrey’s life: “After a last fight of a month where the hours lasted centuries, where to express herself Charlotte blinked and wrote a few words on a slate, she fell asleep smiling while shaking hands with her father Jean-Pierre, her daughter Tara and sister Aude.” In addition, her family announces that “Charlotte Valandrey will be buried in privacy in Pléneuf-Val André, a commune in the Côtes d’Armor, which inspired her artist name, not far from the immense beach of her childhood holidays”. In addition, a religious ceremony will be organized in September in Paris.
While she was promised a great career following her appearance on the big screen at the age of 17 in “Rouge Baiser”, Charlotte Valandrey did not have the career promised then, in 1985. She is best known for her acting in the series “Les Cordier, judge and cop”. Her last role on television, Charlotte Valandrey owes it to the series “Tomorrow belongs to us”, broadcast on TF1 which announces that it will dedicate its episode of Thursday July 14 to the one who played Laurence Moiret, an investigating judge, from 2017 to 2020. The actress had left the program, believing that her character was not renewed enough. More recently, she had made an appearance in the series “Léo Mattei” on TF1 as well, alongside Jean-Luc Reichmann.
Before the release of the film that propelled her to the front of the stage, “Rouge Baiser” by Véra Belmont in 1985, Charlotte Valandrey was diagnosed with HIV. She was then 17 years old and, at the time, the doctors would have predicted a near end of life, “within six months” according to her. In an interview, the actress had revealed that the person at the origin of her contamination was a “gothic prince”, member of a popular rock band.
Charlotte Valandrey revealed her seropositivity twenty years later in her autobiography “Love in the blood”, published in 2005. The disease had a particular impact for the one to whom a bright future was predicted. In 1989, she was refused the role in the film “White Wedding” after she shared this dark secret with the director. Worse still, AIDS affected his health. Indeed, the medication she was taking caused her heart problems. In 2003, she suffered two heart attacks and needed a heart transplant.
Charlotte Valandrey’s tritherapy, used to fight AIDS, caused her heart problems quite young. Thus, in 2003, she suffered two heart attacks. She must then have recourse to a first heart transplant. Unfortunately, recently, she had to once again have to have a heart transplant, as she explained on her Instagram account: “Hello everybody! I haven’t been in intensive care for a month for a drug story. My heart has reached the end of its course and I am therefore waiting for the one who will be my 3rd heart. It can happen at any time. I need all your positive vibes. Love, kindness, your prayers. Because the Warrior is less Warrior…”, she wrote on the social network last June.
The actress leaves behind a daughter, Tara. Aged 21, the latter is the fruit of the marriage of Charlotte Valandrey and her husband, from 1999 to 2003, Arthur Lecaisne. In 2005, the actress told L’Express that she feared having transmitted the AIDS virus to her daughter, born in 2000: “The first year, I couldn’t love her, I I was afraid that she would get sick, afraid of dying. I remained detached. The virus, sometimes, gets in the way. Fortunately, her dad took care of it a lot.” Fortunately, Tara Lecaisne did not contract HIV. The young girl remains discreet about her professional and private life. She does not seem to devote herself to an acting career.
Anne-Charlotte Pascale takes the nickname of Charlotte Valandrey in homage to Val André, the village where she grew up since the age of six. She was revealed in 1985 by the role of Nadia in Rouge Baiser by Véra Belmont. Her performance was rewarded with a Silver Bear at the Berlin festival and the César for best female hope in 1986. She then went on to films before turning to television. From 1992 to 2001, she played journalist Myriam Cordier in the TF1 detective seriesLes Cordier, Judge and Cop before retiring for a while from film sets.
In 2005, she published love in the bloodan autobiographical story in which she reveals her HIV status and her fight against the disease. She also reveals to be the first HIV-positive person to have undergone a heart transplant. In 2006, she took over the management of the sets with fiction Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour alongside Hélène de Fougerolles. She is also back in the Commissaire Cordier series. In 2007, we find her in the theater in the comedy Memory in the water. The actress passed away at the age of 53. In a statement, her father, sister and daughter said her new heart transplant failed.