"We Couldn't Say It": Laura Smet Reveals that Nathalie Baye Was "Already Sick" During Her Last Public Appearances

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Four months after the disappearance of Nathalie Baye, her daughter Laura Smet breaks the silence on the last moments of the actress. Presented in Angoulême, this Thursday, August 20, for the inauguration of a place in the honor of her mother, the actress confides herself in the secret fight against Lewy's body disease. A moving tribute, full of modesty and dignity, shared alongside her friend and former agent Dominique Besnehard.

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Laura Smet lost her mother for more than a year. On April 17, 2026, Nathalie Baye died at the age of 77. Like Catherine Laborde, the actress had long been suffering from Lewy's body disease, a degenerative disease between Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. A fight led in family intimacy, which she never showed in public. Even in Angoulême in 2024, when she had come to present a film with Alain Delon a few days after her death. "She was so hap…