The actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot (Paris, 91 years old), one of the symbols of French cinema of the Sixties, has been hospitalized again in Toulon, in the south-east of France, for several days, according to regional media reports on Tuesday 25 November. This hospitalization is the interpreter’s second in the last month, confirming his delicate state of health.
Bardot has been in the same center where she was hospitalized last October, the private Saint-Jean hospital, for “several days”, although no local media has specified the reasons for her new hospitalization nor how long she has been hospitalized. The reasons for his first hospitalization were not revealed at the time, and now The Figaro reports that he underwent surgery for a “serious illness”, but was able to return home two weeks after receiving the corresponding treatment. According to several sources close to the interpreter, “he was resting and slowly recovering”.
The Brigitte Bardot Foundation then confirmed this to the regional media ICI Provence that the surgery had gone “very well”. But days later, the famous actress had to break her usual silence and deny the rumors circulating about her death on her social networks. “I’m fine and I don’t know which idiot started this fake news about my death. I have no intention of saying goodbye to you. Whoever has ears, listen”, he wrote on October 22nd on his profile influencer The French Aqababe announced the alleged death of the actress: “A legend has died, leaving an indelible legacy,” he wrote. After her denial, Bardot never spoke again; He only shared a video released by the foundation that bears his name about a documentary about his career.
Bardot, also known by her initials BBhe left cinema in the 1970s to dedicate himself to the defense of animal rights. In her chosen retirement from public life, little information is known about her. At least until now, when her health conditions made headlines around the world: in January 2023 she was also hospitalized due to respiratory failure.
In September of this year he published Mon BBcédaire a book written by hand between the years 2020 and 2025 that its publisher, Fayard, presented as “an immersion in the personality of a woman who marked her time with her independence, her commitment and her audacity”. In the book, which she did not promote, she claims “the freedom to be yourself, even when this bothers you”.
I don’t know that I’m the imbecile here who launches this fake news about the disappearance but I know that I’m doing well and that I don’t have the intention of raising my reverence. Good connoisseur
— Brigitte Bardot (@brigitte_bardot) October 22, 2025
Earlier, in May 2025 and during what was her first media appearance in 11 years, Bardot revealed that she no longer lives in her home La Madrague in Saint-Tropez, near the sea and the scene of numerous parties, and that she prefers the tranquility of La Garrigue, the house she owns on the hill and which houses animals and a private chapel.
Since 1986 she has chaired the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, which saves animals and fights against abandonment, pack hunting, abuse, fur farms, etc. Although he is not a regular at events organized by that institution, he continues to record every step and gives few interviews, normally from home and by telephone.
Bardot became world-famous in the 1950s and 1960s for her lighthearted performances and sexual magnetism in box office hits, although they didn’t always have critical support. As a singer, he also released several albums during that time. He added a total of 45 films and more than 70 songs during his 21-year career. His style, immortalized with a scarf and checked trousers Vichythey made her a reference figure in fashion.
