Solveig Kloppen (52) is known to most as the cheerful and easy-going presenter, who has led a number of different TV concepts over the years.
But 2017 was an unusual year for Kloppen.
– Fantastic
First she lost her mother Bjørg Hjelmstad, who had been ill with cancer for a long time, and just six weeks later her sister Kathrine took her own life.
In the podcast “Familiekoden”, with Katrine Moholt (50) and Reidar Hjermann (55), Kloppen now talks about what it was like to be a parent while she was in the middle of a life crisis.
STRONG MOMENT: Mamma Bjørg comes out of the church after the wedding to congratulate her daughter Solveig who has just married Kjartan Brügger Bjånesøy. Photo: Jan Petter Dahl
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– It was difficult to be human then (…) It was very intense, of course. It was as if everything unraveled. And it was absolutely terrible for the children to see me feeling like that. They were so afraid of me, and wondered if you can die of grief, says the 52-year-old honestly.
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She has a son Albert (17) and a daughter Klara (14) with her husband Kjartan Brügger Bjånesøy.
– They knew that Aunt Kathrine was ill for periods, and then we talked about the illness causing her to die. That she was so ill that life became too difficult.
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In previous interviews, including in A magazine, Kloppen has described her four-year-old elder sister as a resourceful woman, but that she also had a darkness in her that made her ill at times.
Solveig Kloppen has not yet responded to Se og Hør’s inquiry.
Just after the funeral, Klara had asked her father three big questions: “Can you get as ill as Aunt Kathrine was, can you die of grief and wasn’t Aunt Kathrine fond of her children?”.
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Naturally, after the sister’s death, the questions from the children, who were eight and eleven years old at the time, were many. But how do you explain suicide to children?
AN EVENING WITH THE TEAM: Solveig has made many wonderful programs – including at home in her own house. Here the guests are Jan Thomas, Gunhild Stordalen, Einar Tørnquist and Erna Solberg. Photo: TV 2.
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– You want to be honest with the child, but then you don’t want them to be more scared than necessary. We talked about the fact that neither mum nor dad are sick in the way Aunt Kathrine was. We had many long conversations with our children, but still, such excitement is something that makes me think that we are all changed forever, Kloppen says in the podcast.
