The Norwegian artist Marianne Friise Antonsen (48) received in the last summer the shocking news that she had a tumor on the brain.
The beloved artist underwent a successful surgery in January of this year, and in a new interview with the Arsenal Magazine, she explains now how the tough the time has been.
Took goodbye
She is currently topical with a christmas concert in Fredrikstad Church, which is her first major appearance after the surgery. The same time in the last year so she is far from that she should hold the christmas concert again.
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I saw clearly the christmas concert in the last year as my goodbye to the audience. As I stood there, I was filled with anxiety. I had a date to deal me to. The date for the operation. What happened after that day, I did not know. It was not certain that I survived, ” she says and continues:
And I woke up, it could be with a major damage. So that I also in the years to get hold a christmas concert, a gift package second to none, ” says Antonsen in a podcast with Fredriksstad Blad.
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Norwegian grammy award: Marianne together with Hanne Krogh in 2009. Photo: NTB Scanpix Show more
this Year’s concert to see the artist as a gift to himself, and despite the fact that self-confidence is not as it once was, know 48-year-old that she has the audience in the back.
Antonsen became suspect that something was seriously wrong when she fainted with a crash on the soveromsgulvet in her home.
An x-ray examination showed afterwards that matadorbet giriş she had a benign tumor on the cerebellum. The message came just two days after she married Henning Friise last summer.
Took farewell with the audience before the tumor operation
– I don’t feel reassured. The operation is risky, among other things, to a vein, however, be stopped. I may lose my hearing, or the ability to speak to me. Then I will never be able to sing. I stand in the middle of my life’s struggle, she told to See and Hear last fall.
To Dagbladet told Antonsen in July how she woke up from the surgery and thought she was dead.
Bad news before the wedding
She remembered how it was to be the bride at the same time as she was waiting for a message that could mean the end of life.
– From being in a lykkeboble, was the joy replaced by a strange fear. The wedding was the last pink day before the disease. I was boosta on love, but I’ve never felt so weak. Never been as scared as ever as I was that year.
– Hope I am the same Marianne afterwards Dagbladet Plus
Even though the doctors can not guarantee that they got it all out, showed the pictures that there is no danger that the tumor comes back with the first.
It was a hundred percent happy information to get. I do not bother to think about what happens in the future, if it comes back and I need to remove a tumor in the head when I’m 55 years. Now looks all good, and until further notice the whole family can put away the hjernesvulsten, she said Dagbladet Magazine.
Fortunately, Antonsen had luck on his side. Now she wants to enjoy everyday life.
It was in 2016 that Antonsen confirmed to See and Hear that she had been the girlfriend with the former football player Henning Friise.
I feel that I have found the man I want to share my life with. My girlfriend is a good supporter, said the artist at the time.
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