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Ola Rapace, 49, met fellow actor Noomi Rapace, 41, shortly after becoming a father for the first time. He fell in love with lightning and broke up with his then girlfriend, the boy’s mother.
A marriage of ten years followed. When Ola and Noomi Rapace divorced in 2011, the couple had a son.
In “Stars at the Castle” on SVT, Ola Rapace talks about the painful moment of divorce for the other contestants at Lejondal Castle: actors Kjell Wilhelmsen and Shima Niavarani, artist Ernst Billgren and artist Charlotte Perrelli.
– Noomi is still the person on this planet that I trust the most. I have great respect for her, she says on the show.
“An incredible life crisis”
Ola Rapace explains that they really should have gotten divorced earlier, five years before it actually happened, but that it was hard to let go. It just took a long time before they realized that “this is over.”
– It was an incredible life crisis for me. I couldn’t really admit to myself, I think, how deep it was. I just rushed into a party life, says and continues:
– For me it was like proof that love doesn’t work. I had hung so many dreams in our relationship.
Escaped the pain
Ola Rapace describes in “The Stars in the Castle” how he “spun” with “the wrong people and the wrong substances” for quite a long time, and quite hard.
Both the time before and after Noomi Rapace’s divorce was destructive.
– I think I escaped my own pain. For me, it was like a downward spiral for a few years, before I realized that this is not what I can do. Because then I’ll really die, he says on the show.
He went so far that he was caught red-handed with drugs. Police confronted him after a night out at Stureplan, where he was sitting in a car with cocaine out front. In connection with a house search in his apartment, a few hundred tablets of a preparation classified as doping were also found.
Ola Rapace was sentenced to a daily fine for drug and doping offenses.
– I should have woken up, but he didn’t. I thought he would do whatever he wanted, he says in “The stars in the castle.”
Bond’s role became a turning point
The turning point was instead the physical role of the villain in the 2012 Bond film “Skyfall.” He went to London for an audition and then realized he had to fine tune in order to perform at his best.
Today he has a completely different relationship with drugs.
– I think cocaine is a completely pointless drug and now I don’t use drugs. I don’t believe in that way of dealing with grief or pain. There are better ways.
