He had remained silent since the death of his wife. Michel Ferracci, husband of the Belgian actress Émilie DEQUENNE, paid a poignant tribute to his wife on Thursday, who died on March 16 at 43 years of rare cancer.
“My love we are there … you left. As you still wrote in your last publication: we loved each other, we love each other and we will love each other. How lucky to have crossed your path, my soul mate, and what injustice to have been separated, ”he wrote, in a post on Instagram. “We led this battle together, tirelessly, for more than a year and a half,” he said, reference to the fierce struggle that the actress led against the disease, and that she had made public.
“Unfortunately, we have not won it, but I know that the warrior that you are continuing to watch over us, from where you are. I miss you terribly … But for you, I’m going to hold on. I will live for us, for our family, for our friends. Because, as you always said: I like life! So, I’m going to love it for both of us, ”concludes Michel Ferracci, joining his post seven black and white shots, showing them happy and in love.
A cinema star
In October 2023, Émilie DEQUENNE had announced that she had this cancer of the endocrine system, diagnosed two months earlier and which held her away from the sets. She died after a remission, then a relapse. With his death, French and French -speaking cinema has cried the premature death of an actress loved by the public and appreciated in the world of the 7th art. His funeral was held last Wednesday in Père-Lachaise, in Paris.
Émilie Dequenne experienced the consecration as soon as she appeared on the screen, by winning the interpretation prize in Cannes for “Rosetta” (1999), by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. This role was the prelude to a much larger career, with around fifty films (“La daughter du RER” by André Téchiné in 2009, “To lose the reason” of Joachim Lafosse in 2012, “The things we say, the things we do” by Emmanuel Mouret in 2020 …), in which the actress was able to vary the registers.
In May 2024, thanks to a remission, the actress appeared on the red carpet in Cannes at the arm of actor Michel Ferracci. Smiling, short hair because of her treatment, she came to celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Rosetta” and present her latest film, “survive”.