Robert Nilsson36, has become the face of Farmen 2025. Already in the first episodes, Robert has by far received the most TV time of all. And there will probably be more.
But what viewers don’t know is that the humorous and charismatic farrier Robert has many years of struggle within him. He has struggled with addiction for several years of his life.
Robert Nilsson in Farmen 2025: “It all started when…”
It is in Nemo Hedén’s podcast “Bara en til” that Robert tells about his background and what would be the basis of his addiction. He says that his father left the family early and that during those years he had a half-brother, whose father took his own life.
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Robert Nilsson. Image source: TV4
He says that he initially worked in the restaurant industry.
– I am a trained chef. And worked in a restaurant. There were many times that you partied and drank after work. It is perfectly normal to drink almost every day when you should “have a beer” but instead have several.
Later in life, he changed course completely.
– Many men during my upbringing have disappeared. So my trust in men has disappeared… that’s why I turn to women the most, or yes, I trust women the most. After all, I work as a farrier and sometimes wonder if I chose a profession with a lot of women because I simply find it difficult to trust men.
When he was 19 years old, sentences began to roll in for, among other things, aggravated damage. This when he had become addicted to graffiti. A judge gave him the choice of eight months in prison or 200 hours of community service. He quit working in a restaurant and began studying as a farrier to turn his life around.
– When I was studying to be a farrier, you partied, but you wrap it in some kind of luxury package… it’s not like you think you have a problem.
The farm 2025. Image source: TV4
Robert tells us that something happens when he takes his first steps into the new industry. He starts his own company and gets off to a flying start. The whole thing also generates more money for him.
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– I haven’t capitulated to the drugs… and now I had stealers. What happens is that I work a lot but the weekends escalated. I started tinkering a lot… and finally lose my footing.
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What happens next is that after a hard weekend, Robert sees on Monday that he had drugs left. He chooses to take them. And then realized that he needs to get help. Which he did. Including a 12-step meeting.
Robert was sober for about three years. He then met a girl he fell head over heels for. And there the relapse began.
– She said straight out that it was sad that we couldn’t have a glass of wine together and that she didn’t think I was addicted. So after three years of sobriety I chose to relapse…
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“I knew immediately when I saw a farrier that I was going to do that,” says Robert in Nemo Hedén’s podcast. Image source: hoofmaestro/Instagram
Robert would have an on and off relationship with alcohol and drugs. He was sober and went to meetings, only to relapse.
But in 2021 something happened during a relapse.
– I ended up in intensive care. Was unconscious for five days, sat in a wheelchair, had to learn to walk. I was in the stroke ward for about 20 days. I read my journals and it’s a horror movie. After that I still relapsed one more time… and that was after the Farm.
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– But you friend, if you have another relapse, you will die, says Nemo.
– I know. I won’t make it. It shouldn’t be like that, he says.