Director Arnaud Denis, 42, is considering euthanasia to end his suffering

Great theater. This is how Le Figaroin unison with other newspapers, judged the rereading of the Dangerous connections offered since 2024. It is signed Arnaud Denis, 42 years old, actor, author and director. Far from the classic texts that he reveres, he speaks today to publicize a « bataille » : he has suffered martyrdom since the installation, following an inguinal hernia, in 2023, of an implant.

“We are in complete medical abandonment” concerning “infection of the hernia prosthesis”he says on a Facebook group he created, entitled French Victims of Hernia Prostheses. HAS The Republican Easthe summarizes his situation: “I can no longer leave the house, I no longer have a social life, I no longer have a life at all. I no longer have anything that constitutes the dignity of a man’s life. »

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“A man knows when he is doomed”

After fitting the prosthesis, Arnaud Denis suffered numerous side effects, which led him to have it removed during a costly operation in the United States, in April 2024. His condition improved, before“get worse”. He would suffer from an ASIA symptom, an English acronym designating an inflammatory reaction following exposure to an adjuvant.

“While chronic postoperative pain may occur, there is, to date, no demonstration of the existence of an intolerance syndrome to prosthetic material involving the immune system in the medical literature”affirmed, for its part, in a press release dated April 2025, the French Society of Digestive Surgery, recalling that more than 250,000 patients are operated on each year.

Arnaud Denis has been going from Charybdis to Scylla for two and a half years. He has taken steps to be euthanized in Belgium in 2026, reports The Republican East . « You can’t help me. The doctors have nothing more to offer me (…) A man knows deep within himself when he is doomed”he laments in the daily newspaper. The forty-year-old will participate in a collective complaint and intends to take legal action against X for unintentional injuries.

A rich career in the theater

In the fall of 2024, he signed the adaptation of Dangerous connectionsthe masterpiece of Choderlos de Laclos published in 1782. It restored the scandalous quintessence of the work while infusing it with a touch of modernity, with the good offices of Delphine Depardieu en Merteuil, who obtained the Molière for actress of the private theater. Three years earlier, Arnaud Denis seized The important thing to be Consistentat the Hébertot theater, by successfully transposing the plot to the Belle Époque.

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Trained very early in dramatic art, taking the lessons of Jean-Laurent Cochet, then the Paris Conservatory, he spent two years in the United States when he was a teenager, before burning the boards in France and founding his own company. Arnaud Denis ventured into teaching and cinema, donning the lawyer’s dress of Yves Saint Laurent in Jalil Lespert’s film. At Monde last year, this former young premier celebrated by Michel Fau confided: “Playing is my reason for living. When that’s taken away from you, it’s dizzying.”.