It was strange because I didn’t feel I wasn’t coping, but obviously I wasn’t. “I would just pass out, suddenly and without any warning, at a premiere or a glitzy event. When Juliette Binoche was cast to star in the Oscar-nominated film of Chocolat released in 2000, the actor stayed at Harris’s home in Barnsley, the author tells Laverne, sleeping in her daughter’s bedroom because there was no spare room. In 2000, her 1999 novel Chocolat was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. “I would basically tell jokes about losing my hair, losing my eyebrows, losing my eyelashes, looking like a potato.” Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. “I brought out the funny side of some of the things that were happening.” Harris gave her cancer the name Mr C and created the hashtag GoodbyeMrC. “It’s one of the coping mechanisms the human mind has, to poke fun at something terrifying,” she said. Making light of her treatment on social media also helped her deal with her recovery. Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp in a scene from the film adaptation of Chocolat.
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