Up three steps with a white flag in hand. This is how Märtha Louise enters the stage during this year’s SKUP conference. Then she asks the journalists in the room: – Have any of you been exposed to the kind of media pressure that I have been exposed to over 30 years? – I have to put up with a lot of criticism from you, and you may not put up with as much criticism from me, so to speak. The most criticized In November last year, it became known that Märtha Louise is no longer a representative of the Royal Household. The announcement came after a number of associations withdrew from cooperation with Märtha Louise as patron. Shortly after, in February this year, Marthä Louise came out harshly against the Norwegian press in an interview with Swedish SVT. With a rhetorical question, she challenged the Norwegian press on equality. – It feels a bit difficult in a time where women’s rights are so strong, and we women are on the “equal line”, as it were, as men. But do we really do that? Would it have been the same if I had been a man? Then Märtha Louise called herself “the most criticized person in Norway”, before criticizing the Norwegian media for their treatment of her late ex-husband Ari Behn and fiance Durek Verrett. Photo: Rune Stoltz Bertinussen / Rune Stoltz Bertinussen Much talked about Verrett has received a lot of criticism after several controversial statements on health issues. Among other things, his so-called “spirit optimizer” became an object of much criticism. In a video, Verrett claimed that he refused hospital treatment, and that it was a locket that helped him recover from corona infection. MEDALLION STORM: In a video on Instagram, Durek Verrett told his over 260,000 followers that he had used a medallion to recover from corona. Photo: Screenshot from Durek Verrett’s Instagram On his own website, a medallion with the same issue was for sale for around NOK 2,000. Afterwards, Verrett also criticized the press, for twisting and turning his statements, and added that he is in favor of school medicine.
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