The royal couple have until now been silent about their future son-in-law’s controversial statements that he recovered from corona with the help of a medallion. But when they met the press in the evening sun during the county trip to Møre og Romsdal, which began today, they commented for the first time on Durek Verrett’s statements, which have attracted strong criticism. The royal couple was met by a sea of people in Valldal in Fjord municipality this afternoon. Photo: Lise Åserud / NTB Verrett received a lot of criticism last summer, including from the government apparatus. “This is an unscrupulous and dangerous charlatan,” State Secretary Ole Henrik Krat Bjørkholt (Ap) wrote in the Ministry of Health and Care about Verrett earlier this month. The background was that Verrett, also known as shaman Durek, claimed a medallion helped him recover from corona infection – the same medallion that he sells on his website for over NOK 2,000. In a video he posted on Instagram, Verrett told his over 260,000 followers that he had refused medical treatment, and that he had instead used a so-called “spirit optimizer” to recover. – Everyone said I had to go to the hospital, and in the hospital they said I had to take all these chemicals, and they wanted to connect me to a breathing machine and stuff like that. I said no. The spirits say that you have what you need to recover, Verrett said in a video. – I don’t know if you have seen the new “optimiser”? I used this one called “The lightbringer” to get the poison out of my system, he said, showing off the locket. Durek Verrett got engaged to Princess Märtha Louise in June. Photo: Screenshot from Durek Verrett’s Instagram The controversial Medallion statement is not the first time Durek Verrett has attracted attention and criticism. Also in the past, members of the royal family have had to comment on controversial statements Verrett has made. Two years ago, the publisher Cappelen Damm stopped a planned publication of Verrett’s book “Spirit Hacking” due to ethical considerations. In the book, Verrett wrote, among other things, that cancer is “self-inflicted” and a result of us no longer wanting to live. At the time, Crown Prince Haakon was asked what he thought of the book. – My starting point is that we have quite different approaches to these questions. I had probably started from research into health and the Norwegian healthcare system, said the crown prince. Lovers It is three years since Princess Märtha Louise, who is number four in the line of succession to the throne in Norway, said that she had fallen in love with American Durek Verrett, who calls himself a shaman. Among other things, Verrett has said that he can turn atoms and reduce age, and that he is not an ordinary human, but a hybrid between a reptile and Andromeda. The couple announced their relationship a few days before they were to start the tour “The Princess and the Shaman” in May 2019. Princess Märtha Louise and Durek Verrett announced their engagement in June and then published this photo. Photo: Babak Golkar/elevateYOU / NTB
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