French film star Brigitte Bardot has been hospitalized with “a serious illness” since late last month.

The 91-year-old former sex symbol and animal rights activist should be released in coming days after three weeks at a private hospital in Toulon, about 40 miles southwest of her home in Saint-Tropez, according to local outlet Var-Matin.

Despite her projected release, the BAFTA nominee’s “condition remains worrying” after she underwent “surgery in the context of a serious illness.”

Bernard d’Ormale, to whom Bardot has been married since 1992, told the outlet in summer 2023 that she was briefly under observation after firefighters treated her at their French Riviera home due to difficulty breathing.

Her breathing “was harder than usual but she didn’t lose consciousness,” d’Ormale said a

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