Mortal or Immortal? Christine Koht has wondered about that question a lot since she became seriously ill with cancer. Now she comes with the book “Dødsfrisk”. Already 2,500 have pre-ordered the book. – I really like that word, “deathly fresh”, it says it all. There is so much fight in it. I have been dead, and people ask if I am well. No, I’m not completely healthy. It goes hand in hand, says Koht and continues: – I was going to die. Luckily I didn’t google it. Afterwards I learned that the chance of survival is 7 percent. Today, Christine Koht is much healthier, but not completely healthy. She can exercise and move, but her body is still exhausted and on alert. But the body is still on alert. – I can’t let go, because my whole body is at war. That’s how I feel. I rejoice like a child and at the same time I am terrified. Fighting with laughter In the book, she writes, among other things, about how she used laughter and humor to get through the most humiliating episodes in the hospital. “Rikke helps me from the wheelchair onto the wheelchair so I can sit while she showers me. Naked. Helpless. Powerless. To be flushed. Objectively speaking, this is intensely degrading. I’m a rock on a chair and I need help lifting my arm to get – flushed.” – Without you, it wouldn’t have worked, says Christine Koht to his wife Pernille Rygg. Photo: Stig Jaarvik / news The solution is to laugh and joke throughout the session together with nurse Rikke. “If I laugh, I win,” she writes in the book. – It has helped, but there are many people who are in a good mood and who have died. I wish it was Jesus who saved me, but it is medicine, she says to news. Christine Koht put on many kilos in connection with intensive cortisone treatment. Without it, she would not survive. Photo: Privat She describes, among other things, a powerful moment in the meeting with the doctor Anna. It was she who made the decision to put Koht on massive amounts of cortisone to avoid liver failure. – I asked if I was going to die, and then she said – you will live, says Koht. “Should I be worried?” The name of her 2018 show, “Should I Be Worried?”, turned out to be more timely than she had imagined. At first she was just worried about whether the show was funny enough. She then worried whether she had contracted cancer. Nerves, thought everyone around her. In the book “Dødsfrisk” Christine Koht describes her own struggle for survival. Photo: Stig Jaarvik / news But when she was on stage in Ullensaker, she had to leave it abruptly. “I can’t do it anymore, me,” she writes in the book. The nightmare had come true. “It’s a nightmare. I’ve dreamed this many, many times – that I’m standing there and can’t remember the lyrics, have no idea what to say. It’s just as bad in reality as it is in the nightmare. It’s the one thing that must never happen, the one thing you never do. Now I have done it. Gone off the stage.” In the same year, she was diagnosed with the spread of a rare type of mole cancer in the mucous membranes. In “Dødsfrisk”, she describes her own struggle for survival. The book was written in collaboration with his wife Pernille Rygg. The two have been married since 2013, but have been a couple since the 90s. After a hospital visit to Christine Koht, his wife Pernille Rygg also became seriously ill. The pair have collaborated on the content of the new book “Dødsfrisk”. Photo: Julie Naglestad / news – I’m so lucky to have you, Koht says, holding his wife’s face in his hands. – Without you, it wouldn’t have worked. Rygg, who is also an author, also became seriously ill in 2019. After a hospital visit to Koht, she suffered kidney failure as a result of a dangerous bacteria. Open about drug addiction Koht has previously written “Koht’s Book”, where she opened up about cocaine and pill abuse. The goal was to shake off the shame by laying all cards on the table. Experiments with cocaine began small before addiction took over. Koht told Lindmo in 2020 that at one point she withdrew NOK 70,000 to buy cocaine. Christine Koht told about cocaine abuse at Lindmo in 2020. His wife Pernille Rygg eventually had to close her bank account. In “Koht’s Book”, she also wrote about being bisexual and bipolar.
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