Jonas Gardell and Mark Levengood went through with their divorce just weeks ago.
Now Jonas tells us what it’s like to be almost 60 and newly divorced.
– Jag has actually been blessed with a new adventure that I hadn’t wished for, he says in TILDE.
At the beginning of the year, Jonas Gardell and Mark Levengood announced that they had chosen to separate, but then said that they would remain married. But just weeks ago, they got through a divorce petition.
Jonas Gardell: That’s what it’s like to be almost 60 and newly divorced
When Jonas now visits Tilde de Paula Eby on her pink sofa at Junibacken, Jonas talks about the time after the divorce and what it’s like to be “almost 60 and newly divorced”, as he puts it himself.
– I think that you should live a life worth dying for, and when you do that, you also go to the pumps. You fail. Failure is part of the application’s conditions. If we don’t agree that things go to hell, if we don’t agree to go to hell every now and then, we don’t live, he says.
– Everyone knows that I’m newly divorced, and then people say “isn’t that very sad?” Well, of course it’s sad. But it would be even sadder if it hadn’t been sad.
“Given a new adventure that I hadn’t wished for”
Jonas is currently involved with the show, which has been titled “You don’t get to live your life, that’s the real thing” and he is very grateful to be alive – to have come and to be part of it.
He reasons:
– Instead of thinking help, I’m 60 and newly divorced and my cats will eat me when they find me, I can think that I’m 60 years old and I’ve actually been blessed with a new adventure that I hadn’t wished for, like I couldn’t have seen that coming. But once it has come, I might as well go into this new breakup and transformation in a kind of grace and see: what happens now? I find that a bit exciting.