Arnaud Denis’s life changed in 2023 after what was supposed to be a benign surgical procedure. Three years later, the artist, who has been nominated multiple times for the Molière Awards, no longer recognizes himself. Deprived of all autonomy, he now lives bedridden, far from the stage he had to abandon. In a recent interview with Dauphiné Libéré on January 6, he decided to break his silence. A raw testimony where he described his existence reduced to the essentials.
“I can no longer leave my house, I have no social life, I have no life at all. I live like a terminally ill patient. They can’t help me. Doctors have nothing left to offer me,” he lamented. Since March 18, the actor has been hospitalized in palliative care in Belgium, where two doctors have agreed to euthanasia.
A carefully considered decision he made when he began “to no longer be able to bathe myself and to fall from indignity to indignity,” as he detailed in a new interview with Dauphiné Libéré. His daily life has become unbearable, as he has lost the ability to walk, bathe, or eat properly, and he spends almost 24 hours a day in bed.
Arnaud Denis has confessed that he no longer fears death, having fought for a year and a half and tried everything, knowing deep down that things will not get better. His descent into this ordeal began with the insertion of a polypropylene prosthesis to treat a hernia in the groin. Soon after, alarming symptoms started to appear.
In an interview on RTL on January 16, he shared the deteriorating state of his health, with symptoms like blood in urine and stool, hypotension, and frequent visits to the emergency room. Since the implant, the nightmare has continued, with severe physical and health issues that doctors cannot explain. Faced with a medical dead-end in France, he turned to the United States for surgery to remove the implant, but even this did not improve his condition.
Arnaud Denis now waits for official approval to end what he describes as an endless ordeal.
