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This November 29 is a sad birthday. The actress, singer and writer Charlotte Valandrey would have celebrated her 56th birthday. Carried away 2 years ago, after the failure of a heart transplant which was to replace hers, “out of breath”, she left behind a daughter, Tara, who had become a young woman, the fruit of her love affair with Arthur. , her ex-husband, who became a chef in his specialty…
Charlotte Valandrey would have been 56 years old, what happened to her ex-husband Arthur and their daughter Tara?
It was a little over 25 years ago. On July 17, 1999 in Pléneuf-Val-André, a Breton town bordering the bay of Saint Brieuc, a celebrity is getting ready to get married. Viewers know her well. For almost 10 years, she has lent her features to Myriam Cordier, a role she plays in the series The Cordiers, judge and copalongside and . Her real name is Anne-Charlotte Pascal, but she chose to borrow her pseudonym from the city of her heart, this seaside town where from the age of 6 she spent a large part of her childhood. artist. , SO.
While this happy event is being celebrated, everyone is still unaware. She would only reveal it to the public 6 years later in her autobiography, Love in the blood. In the meantime, Charlotte almost lost her life. Victim in 2003 of two heart attacksshe underwent a heart transplant…
In the meantime, on this wedding day, her still valiant heart beats for a man. . Their meeting took place shortly before, probably giving rise to mutual love at first sight which encouraged them to unite so quickly. Their love is such that barely a year after this marriage on Breton soil, a little girl is born: Tara.
Four years after their marriage, Charlotte Valandrey and her husband separate
She will not see her parents united for long. In 2002, doctors noted that Charlotte Valandrey’s heart was very damaged by triple therapies that she underwent to combat her HIV status. If she wants to live, . In an interview given to Gala in March 2022, a few months before her death, the actress made this sad observation: “It seems that the worst torments for people are divorce or moving or being unemployed”she said, pointing out to our colleagues that for her part, everything had fallen on her at the same time: “Coming out of my transplant, I weighed 35 kgI divorced, moved, I no longer had a job or a social life. It was a lot”she details, referring in passing to the separation with her husband, which occurred at the time of the operation, only four years after their marriage.
After his separation from Charlotte, with whom he now has two children, including Lazare, the youngest, born January 27, 2020. But above all he continued his activities linked to his passion for a very particular area: cooking. A discipline that he intends to sublimate thanks to science, he who directs a scientific and culinary technical monitoring unit for the world of catering. On LinkedIn, he summarizes his activity in two sentences: “Providing new answers to old questions and raising ignored problems and providing solutions.” To better understand what he does, you have to go on his website: cuisinologie.fr. He explains in detail how to put science at the service of cooking.
Charlotte’s ex-husband is a culinary consultant
This culinary advisor puts his talent at the service of businesses but also the general public thanks to his beautiful works with crazy titles like “Go cook yourself an egg…to perfection” released in September 2023 or “Why don’t spaghetti bolognese exist?”. He also provides advice via his Instagram account on which he reveals some secrets. In particular that of a roast chicken which he coats before cooking with salt and baking powder to, he writes, obtain “crisp skin to die for and tender, juicy whites.” This furnace chemist even exercises his talents on television. We saw him playing the columnist on the set of BFM TV. And since the art of cooking is an art that can be shared and passed on, he also gives lessons to students.
This is not the path her daughter followed, Tara, now 24 years old. A young woman who grew up with her mother’s worries, as she confided to Gala shortly before dying. “All these years I was there, of course, she explainedbut very taken by what was happening to me. Sometimes, quite harshly, she tells me that I slept for ten years. It’s true that I haven’t been like other mothers who prepare breakfast, lunch… I didn’t get these kinds of attention for Tara. But I was always there when she needed me.”
Charlotte Valandrey’s daughter helped her not to sink
And vice versa, one could say… Because in this same interview, Charlotte Valandrey recognized that it is thanks to her daughter and for her that she has held on all these years. That she found the strength to continue “Two or three times” where she has “hit rock bottom.“
Since July 13, 2022 and the death of the actress who was still in the heyday of TV films Tomorrow belongs to us shortly before his disappearance. After a baccalaureate obtained in 2019 and schooling at the school of communication Pub Soupshe obtained a master’s degree in sports communication. Last year, according to the formula on LinkedIn, she had “the pleasure to announce” that she now held the position of Junior Events Project Manager at Quarterbacka communications agency focused on sport.
which were logically held in the town of Pléneuf-Val-André, Tara had paid a final tribute to Charlotte, declaring about her: “She is the strongest person I know, with the greatest rage for life. Her freedom has finally been returned to her, her fight is finally over.” Despite the difficulties she endured during her youth, Tara, with her academic and professional successes, can boast of having earned hers.
