Jenny Stromstedt is one of Sweden’s most famous faces and is often seen in the TV box as presenter of “News Morning”. Over the years, she has guided the viewers through everything from party leader debates to scratching trislotos in the TV4 house.
The viewers have also been able to follow her and her husband Niklas in the program “Together with Strömstedts”. In the program they visit the homes of other Swedish celebrity couples and discuss relationships.
Last autumn, the news came that the popular presenter would be allowed to make his own “Winter in P1” for Swedens radio.
Jenny Strömstedt about the abuse
In the program, which has been published on Sveriges Radio’s website, Jenny Strömstedt talks about an abuse in her youth that left a deep mark on her.
The abuse happened at a student party and Jenny tells about the incident in the third person.
– The young man, who filled the glass during dinner, lifts the half-unconscious body in white Converse and tight blue jeans and carries it away towards the main building. Nobody reacts. At the youth parties during the student’s time, the limitlessness is a goal in itself, she says.
When they get to a loft, where no one sees, the man takes off her shoes, jeans and panties, says Jenny.
– Throughout this process he must have maintained some kind of desire, that is the most remarkable thing, she says in “Winter in P1”.
Jenny Strömstedt’s words about shame
Jenny Strömstedt goes on to say that she wakes up during the abuse.
– The woman on the floor wakes up as the act begins, the man has trouble penetrating because the semi-conscious body he has placed in front of him is not in the mood for sex.
A person comes in to get a blanket, which interrupts the sequence of events, and “the act is never completed”, according to Jenny.
– The rape, here I want to make a contemporary note that I still shy away from using the word, because I still struggle with the idea that his attempt at intercourse with an unfaithful body was really a reasonable consequence of her flirting at the table, she says .
Jenny Strömstedt on the importance of telling stories: “Every day, every year”
The shame of the abuse weighed on Jenny Strömstedt for many years – and she now wants to tell about it because the crimes still happen “every day, every year”. She says that in her case it took until “metoo” before she realized that she didn’t need to feel any shame about what the man did. That she doesn’t need to trivialize the abuse.