In tonight’s episode of “Renées brygga”, the host welcomes three guests to his summer cottage in the Stockholm archipelago.
This time it is the turn of Mårten Andersson, Dan Ekborg and Ellen Bergström, who all have one thing in common.
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Mårten Andersson was close to drowning
All of them have struggled with mental illness. Ellen Bergström tells, among other things, that she had problems with alcohol abuse, and in a conversation with Renée Nyberg, the comedian Mårten Andersson tells about an event that would change the course of his life – forever.
– I had an episode where I was drowning when I was drunk. I was completely drenched and stood peeing outside F12, a restaurant and nightclub in Stockholm, begins Mårten.
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Club F12, located on Fredsgatan in central Stockholm, is close to the quay and thus flowing water.
– They had told me before to go home. Luckily I was wearing a pink shirt, that’s what saved me. The guard who had sent me home sensed, as he has told me afterwards, that something was wrong.
“Just be my hand that stuck up”
Mårten further explains that the same guard had looked in Mårten’s direction, who was standing urinating towards the water. In the same second, he saw the comedian fall into the water.
– I was pulled into the water by the current and got stuck in the underwater plants. So it was only my hand that stuck up. So he managed to tear me up. It was a huge wake up call, that “now I’m not going to drink anymore”.
Mårten Andersson’s 20 years of therapy
When Renée asks how he felt during that period, he doesn’t mince words that there was a lot of shame involved.
– I was ashamed of myself. I was ashamed of who I was as a person, as a son. I wasn’t feeling well, I needed to change that and become a better version of myself. And it took 20 years of therapy.
