– I was so tired – VG

Author Pernille Rygg has stood by her side through the difficult years. In an open interview with Psykisk Helse magazine, Rygg talks about how life as a family member helped take a heavy toll on his health.

It was in December of last year that Rygg herself was admitted, at the same time that his wife received intensive treatment for cancer. Rygg became seriously ill during a visit to Koht’s hospital.

Rygg tells the magazine that an infection turned into blood poisoning and then a violent immune reaction with tiny blood clots everywhere.

The situation must have put her life in danger, but the doctors saved her. Today, Rygg is in great shape.

– It wasn’t because Christine was sick. But doctors had no doubt that he became so dangerous because he was so tired, Rygg tells Mental Health.

Rygg agrees that VG mentions the interview.

Koht, who for the past few years has communicated with the outside world primarily through Facebook posts and videos, inaugurated his many followers on the dramatic situation surrounding his wife and how eager he was to lose Pernille.

– Pernille was going to sleep with me for the first time. I lay down, stroked her back and prayed to God: “Please don’t let Pernille get sick.” Then she got very sick, Koht told VG when she was named “Name of the Year” last year.

Rygg herself hasn’t embroidered her own awkward medical history in public until now she takes off her veil. Also about all the difficult years before Koht got cancer and struggled with completely different things.

In the magazine interview, Rygg recounts how lonely she felt protecting her boyfriend during the years of drug addiction, and the time before Koht was diagnosed with bipolarity.

VG +: When Christine Koht was on stage, the audience had no idea that she was morbidly manic and was often addicted to pills and cocaine.

Koht himself has discussed all this in detail in the new book “Kohts Bok”.

Back also contributes to the confidence in the book about the extremely difficult phases during your relationship.

– When I sat alone and Googled bipolar, it was tough days. But a lot of good has come out of this. A story with a happy ending, Rygg told VG just before the book’s release this fall.

In the recent magazine interview, she says more about the role as a relative of someone who is struggling.

– Take some innmari health. When it comes to drug addiction, the term “co-addict” is used. I was amazed at how sick an addict can get.

The couple have been together for 30 years, since Koht was in her early 20s. In 2013, they got married, after being lovers for 23 years.

Until Koht was admitted to drug rehab, Rygg did his best to keep problems hidden from the outside world, including those closest to her.

Rygg tells Psykisk Helse that she felt a responsibility and that she is also an introvert who doesn’t say much about her own feelings.

– The main thing is that he was so tired. One of the things that made my self esteem very low was that this should not have happened to a person who is so close to me. “I should have made sure it wasn’t,” Rygg tells the magazine.

He goes on to say that he felt self-loathing and shame for not making sure things weren’t less full of conflict.

In the end, Rygg was so self-defeating and exhausted that she hardly knew who she was. In hindsight, she wished she had relied on others, an authority who could explain that she didn’t have to be alone in this.

Explosive settlement

Also in the book is this topic, how Rygg held the problems within the four walls and how he finally exploded during a session organized by the detox program, where family members would speak in plenary.

That’s when it all came to the surface, everything that was painful and difficult that Koht exposed his wife to when she was at her worst, and that Koht himself has been ruthlessly honest about in the book.

Rygg delivered a thunderous speech he had written.

«You took my heart and wiped your ass with it!Rygg yelled at his girlfriend, in front of everyone.

For VG, Rygg has previously described this as a kind of cleaning.

– I didn’t know it could be that effective. For me, it was a miracle to finish everything once and for all.

– I scolded her and I will never do it again. It is wonderful.

The trials the couple have faced in recent years in the form of Koht’s cancer have been of another kind. The popular comedian and host was diagnosed with cancer of the mole on the mucous membranes in November 2018.

Several times he has been critical, and those closest to him have been called because it could be the end. But Koht clings to life.

On her 53rd birthday in May of this year, Koht said she had received test results showing that the cancer had not spread. But the immune system is weakened and health is bad.

On Sunday, Koht announced on Facebook that she was hospitalized again. At the same time, Koht assured that she and her wife never give up, and that even in every illness “there is always something to laugh about.”

«Kind Pernille has decorated the backyard with so much light that it looks like a Disney backyard movie. (…) He has even prepared it
our pink christmas tree »Koht wrote.

After Rygg got so sick last year, Koht told Se og Hør:

– I can not live without her. All I do is Pernille, the woman in the back. She is always there. There would never have been a show with me without her. We are both one soul.