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Marianne Faithfull’s Health History Before Her Death

The late singer and actress died at the age of 78 in January 2025 after battling several health issues throughout her life.

However, in the years leading up to her death, Faithfull had opened up about battling multiple health issues, from emphysema to breast cancer. Getty Images Throughout her life, Faithfull battled several health issues: bulimia, breast cancer, emphysema from smoking and pneumonia that resulted from COVID-19, according to BBC. Throughout the 2000s, Faithfull opened up in her memoir, Memories, Dreams and Reflections, about battling hepatitis C. In 2014, the British artist reportedly broke her hip, then later suffered from an infection at the prosthesis.

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