In 2010, Sylvie Joly published her autograph titled Is that your real name?in which she revealed that she was suffering from Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative neurological condition characterized by the unexplained disappearance of a number of nerve cells that secrete dopamine. However, dopamine plays an essential role in motor control, which explains the main symptoms of the disease: tremor at rest in two-thirds of cases, muscle stiffness, slowness or rarefaction of certain movements.
“Sylvie suffered from severe Parkinson’s disease, which is not necessarily fatal. She died of cardiac arrest at the end of the night, at our home in Paris”, announced this Friday Pierre Vitry, her husband .
Sylvie Jolie had first been a lawyer before moving towards a career in comedy, with one woman shows where she stood out with fierce humor. She also acted in many films but since 2010, she lived withdrawn from the scene, because of the disease “which had fallen on me like the sky on the heads of the Gauls” she wrote in her book.
“Don’t worry, it’s not contagious!, the specialist had told him when announcing his diagnosis. “Ah, it’s still shit!”, Sylvie Joly had then replied.
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