Solène Delinger 3:45 p.m., February 5, 2024
Guest on the show “Sept à quatre” on Sunday February 4 on TF1, Line Renaud spoke about an abortion she experienced in the 1940s. At the time, abortion was prohibited in France and actress almost lost her life during the procedure.
It's one of the biggest regrets of her life... At 95, Line Renaud still talks about her pain at not having experienced motherhood. A subject that she addresses without taboo in her book
Merci la vie!
and that she did not evade Sunday February 4 against Audrey Crespo-Mara in
Seven to Eight
on TF1.
“I started sepsis”
Asked about motherhood, the actress spoke of her clandestine abortion in the 1940s, when she was only 18 years old. At the time, her companion Loulou Gasté wanted her to end her pregnancy. “I begged for him to change his mind, and no. We stuck to the idea of having an abortion,” recalled Line Renaud. This abortion traumatized her. "This abortion, all my life I remembered a black staircase. I remember what they called an angel maker. I remember a knitting needle. I came home, and there, I started sepsis,” she said in
Seven to Eight.
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In the 1940s, abortion was banned in France and women risked their lives by having an abortion in secret. They had to wait for the Veil law to pass in 1975 to be able to legally end their pregnancy. Line Renaud paid the costs of the ban on abortion. After her clandestine abortion, the actress learned from her doctor that she would never be a mother: "He gave me a curettage on the dining room table. That's where I discovered that I didn't 'would never have children.' 77 years later, the pain remains intact...