News, Solveig Kloppen | Solveig Kloppen in tears: – Absolutely terrible for the children to see me like that

(Nettavisen): Solveig Kloppen (52) shows a vulnerable and personal side in a new episode of the TV 2 podcast “The Family Code”.

In the episode, among other things, grief becomes a theme, when presenter Katrine Moholt (50) asks Kloppen how she is sharing difficult feelings with her children. She had to do exactly that when in 2017 she lost her mother and sister in a short time.

– It was difficult to be human. It’s strange, because it’s been many years, but I still can’t talk about it without being touched or moved or on the verge of tears, shares Kloppen.

Further on in the podcast, she tells, clearly through her tears, how she and her family stood together during the tough times.

Kloppen has not responded to Nettavisen’s inquiries.

– Everything unraveled

It was in 2017 that Solveig Kloppen first lost her mother to cancer, before her older sister took her own life six weeks later.

The presenter has spoken openly about the grief and the difficult time several times in the past, and also shared many of his own experiences in the TV program “What I didn’t say” in 2019.

In the podcast, Moholt asks what it was like for Kloppen to be a mother when things were at their worst, which she does not hide was difficult. Her children were then eight and eleven years old.

– It was terrific. It was as if everything unraveled. And it was absolutely terrible for the children to see me like that, they were so scared of me. They wondered if you can die of grief, she says.

At the same time, she is clear that as a family they talked a lot about what had happened, and that it was important for both her and her husband to be open and honest with the children throughout.

– Changed forever

Kloppen is clear that the suicide aspect in particular can be a bit difficult to talk to the children about.

Nevertheless, she and her husband answered what they had to wonder about along the way, and among other things they were clear that the aunt was ill – and that life eventually became too difficult for her to live.

– You want to be honest with your children, but you don’t want them to be more scared than they are. (…) We had many long conversations with our children. But still, an experience like that makes me think that everyone is changed forever.

Kloppens gets support from the “Family Code” psychologist Reidar Hjermann (55), who is clear in the podcast episode that openness is particularly important in such a situation. This is because it is better to talk to the children about the painful topics than to let them guess what it is about on their own.