Hélène de Fougerolles confides in her stay in a psychiatric hospital: “I was stuffed with pills”

This Saturday, February 20, Hélène de Fougerolles was invited in the program “There is not only one life in life” on Europe 1. The actress returned in full transparency on her stay in a psychiatric hospital, in her young people years.

She who is very discreet about her private life, Hélène de Fougerolles confided in all transparency. In the columns of Paris Match On newsstands on February 18, the actress had made intimate confidences about her childhood, which was painful. After the divorce of his parents when she was 3 years old, Hélène de Fougerolles had to deal with many moves, constant changes of school as well as new in-laws. It is finally at the age of 16 years that she found her way by deciding to become an actress. After her first roles, the young actress that she was had to face periods of anorexia and bulimia, stalkers during her castings, a suicide attempt and a passage in a psychiatric hospital.

This trying period of her life, Hélène de Fougerolles is come back on it at the microphone of Europe 1, this Saturday, February 20. The actress was the guest of Isabelle Morizet, for her show There is not just one life in life. In all transparency, the 47-year-old mother spoke about her stay at the psychiatric service at the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris which lasted a week. “It was twenty years ago, I don’t know how it is today I don’t know if the anorexics are locked in glass cages, it was the case at the time“Said the actress who suffered from eating disorders.”Supposedly it would maybe help them want to continue living and feeding themselves, it didn’t work much“, she added.

Hélène de Fougerolles marked by the apathy of health professionals

Evoking “aberrations“, Hélène de Fougerolles explained”not at all to have been accompanied by these professionals and psychologists who are supposed to be precisely there to accompany us“. And to continue:”I didn’t see any empathy or kindness in these people, and I saw a lot. […] In those places, I don’t understand how you can want to live.“At the time, the young actress was also put on medication, as she says:”I was stuffed with pills and I saw all these people, none smiling, and who decided to keep me locked up because I could be a danger to myself“, she concluded. Her story, Hélène de Fougerolles tells it in her book Don’t worry, mom, it’s going to be okay, to be published on February 24.

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She had attempted suicide in her younger years

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She suffered from eating disorders

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She regrets “not having been accompanied at all” by health professionals

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She remembers seeing “no empathy and no kindness” among health professionals.

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She remembers being “stuffed with pills”

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