“I got very angry, but I didn’t know what to do,” says Kalla in his new autobiography, “Shame on the one who gives”. The comment is about what happened at the Idrottsgalan in 2008. Kalla had become a superstar after she won the Tour de Ski as a 20-year-old. At the Swedish sports gala, she and her boyfriend Tiio Söderhjelm were placed at the same table as Prince Carl Philip. But it was something completely different from the table location that was to steal the headlines. Because when Kalla was to be honoured, the evening’s host of the televised award ceremony approached Kalla. CANDID: Charlotte Kalla reveals many secrets in her new autobiography, written in collaboration with Johan Esk. Photo: THE BOOK AFFAIR «Suddenly Peter Settman appeared. He took me in the face, held me tight and gave me a kiss in the middle of the mouth,” says Kalla in the book. She says that she felt taken by surprise. “What I was involved in on a live broadcast in front of an audience of millions felt outrageous and reprehensible,” says Kalla. – Very sad SVT has spoken to Settman about what appears in Kalla’s book, which is launched today. – It is very sad that she experiences it that way, or experienced it that way. That was absolutely not the intention, says Settman. He explains that he was in the role of Ragge from the Swedish comedy series “Ronny och Ragge” when the kiss took place. He had read in a newspaper that Kalla had been humming the “Ronny och Ragge” song “Kör fort som fan” when she made the decisive move on the monster hill in Val di Fiemme. Settmann says that the feature was improvised, and that he did not have a plan for how to end it. It ended with a kiss. – It is important to emphasize that I do not kiss her on the mouth. I kiss on my own hand, he says to SVT. BOOK CURRENT: Charlotte Kalla. Photo: Maria Östlin Would have reacted differently In the book, Kalla points out that she felt she was expected to laugh. So she laughed. “Today, I would have reacted in a completely different way,” she says. She showed that in practice this summer. After Spanish football president Luis Rubiales kissed Jennifer Hermoso against her will after the World Cup final, the “Give fan in my body” petition started. 19 Swedish sportswomen were behind it. Among them: Charlotte Kalla. Peter Settman says he would also do it differently today. – It has been 15 years. It doesn’t sound like a long time, but it is a long time, purely culturally. I think that now I would have thought in a different way when I had done the improvisation. I think I had skipped it. It’s not funny today, says Settman to SVT.
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