longer the most important thing for me," she has said. "I am one of those actors who, when they are in love, forget everything else." She denies the
the much-publicized rumor that Lewis broke up with her by fax: "I never received a fax that said, 'This is over.' Shortly after I got pregnant I saw him and then he wasn't there anymore."
Love and work aren't the only things that keep Adjani in the public eye. Her long-standing criticism of Muslim fundamentalism in Algeria and outspoken opposition to the anti-immigration policies of the French National Front have made her the object of sometimes intense political enmity. In 1986, a right-wing smear campaign led to rumors in the press that she was dying of AIDS. When newspapers announced a few days later that she had in fact died, she appeared on the French news program "Le Journal de 20H" to prove otherwise.
