“I can’t drive”: what rare disease does Camille Chamoux suffer from?

“I’m narcoleptic.” It was in an interview with the YouTube channel On Time that Camille Chamoux released the information, bluntly and bluntly. The 48-year-old actress, a key figure in Canal+ series, suffers from narcolepsya rare neurological disorder which affects around 20,000 French people and manifests itself by involuntary and sudden falling asleep, without warning. “I’m totally in ‘on’ and suddenly it cuts out”she describes. The illness broke out between the ages of 15 and 18 and, since then, it has been part of the actress’s daily life, whether she likes it or not. There is no shortage of anecdotes to illustrate how this pathology appears everywhere, even in the most improbable moments. “Last night, I fell asleep in the middle of a sentence”she says with this amused detachment that is unique to her. If she has three minutes, she “nose pricks very easily” and there’s not much you can do about it.

A reality that complicates the daily life of Camille Chamoux

The more annoying side is that Camille Chamoux is also the mother of two children aged 8 and 11. Managing a shoot, children and unpredictable falling asleep is a busy schedule! One of the most concrete constraints of his illness remains the inability to drive. “I can’t drive because I can fall asleep at the wheel”, she said simply. No car, therefore, which, for a working mother with two children, represents daily logistics that are more complex than it seems. But the interpreter of Chataléré is not the type to dwell on the difficulties. She prefers to move forward, find solutions, and transform this “little problem” into something manageable. Because there is another side of the coin, and it is not so dark. “It’s good because I recover very quickly”she confides. These sudden falls asleep also have their positive side: the body regenerates itself at full speedwhich allows him to complete projects at a pace that many would envy. As proof, narcolepsy did not prevent her from becoming one of the most active actresses of her generation.

One illness can hide another: Camille Chamoux’s other problem

Narcolepsy is not the only battle that Camille Chamoux fights on a daily basis. The actress also suffers from adenomyosis, a specific form of endometriosis. And when she talks about it, the words are blunt. “Every time I have my period I pass out. If I don’t take treatment or stop them, she explained. These are immeasurable pains. It’s more than the pain of childbirth. It’s supposed to be once a month so annoying”she adds, with this characteristic humor which allows her to talk about the most difficult things without dwelling on them. She even confides having “pulled a force” of this ordeal, to the point of writing a humorous series related to the illness. Two chronic illnesses, two children, a thriving career… Clearly, Camille Chamoux can do it all.