Reclusive former French film star Brigitte Bardot, 91, has been hospitalized for the previous three weeks in Toulon, close to her house in Saint-Tropez, native newspaper Var-Matin reported on its web site.
She underwent surgical procedure associated to a “serious illness”, the newspaper stated, citing unidentified sources. Her situation is “worrying”, it added.
Bardot grew to become world well-known within the Nineteen Fifties and Sixties for her free-spirited performances and sexual magnetism in a sequence of flicks. As a singer, she additionally launched a number of information throughout that point.
She stopped performing within the Seventies, completely moved to the French Riviera city of Saint-Tropez, and devoted herself to the animal welfare trigger by means of a basis in her title.
The Brigitte Bardot Foundation didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
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