Now comes the DESTROYER as a piece!

Finally I get to tell you!

The RIKSTEATERN premieres the play ÖDELÄGGAREN, free after my book of the same name in February 2023. A cleverly boiled down text is written by Lisa Lindén and directed by Karin Kickan Holmberg and on stage we get to see the WONDERFUL actress MARIA KULLE.

I am SO happy for this constellation of talented people and it is SO good that the play will be traveling around the country. From idea to production, it has gone unusually fast!

Karin Kickan Holmberg, which I did not know before, contacted me at the beginning of 2021 and said she had gotten so many ideas from reading the book and wondered if we should do a play. Her enthusiasm was contagious, and yes of course, Of course I'm open to it, it is clearly a grateful one, human and dramatic history, but I didn't want to go into the material again myself. Quick as an eye, she found Lisa Lindén on recommendations and heard from many theaters of interest. It turned out that there was a lot of interest, but Riksteatern was the fastest!

The three of us met last summer in my garden – it was the first time we all met and I haven't seen any of them since, but sometimes stories are almost like music. Musicians can, without knowing each other, start playing together, improvise and create something brilliant, and this can obviously also happen with text if those involved are inspired and captivated by the story enough.

On the way it became clear that the insanely beautiful actress Maria Kulle will play the only role and it probably can't get any better.

Yesterday, only 16 months after the only meeting between authors, director and playwright Riksteatern announced its upcoming repertoire and I can finally tell you that ÖDELÄGGAREN is coming – maybe to A SCENE NEAR YOU!

When we three women met under the apple trees, we agreed that Lisa and I would have no contact – because she is writing an adaptation of the book and the book's Christina. I happen to be in reality too, exactly at the same time, but that is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THING. That's how strange it is with fiction and reality. Even when I wrote the book, the real Christina was different from the book's Christina and of course the book's Christina was not exactly the one described either. But it was important to us that Lisa should not be influenced by my person and that I should put as little as possible into her text .

You can imagine how scary it really is for someone to write a text on one's text that is also about a terrible time in one's life! It could have been really hard for me, but it hasn't happened! I am very pleased with her editing and impressed with how she has managed to boil the super thick book down to a normal length play! It will be very exciting, roligt, amazing and scary to watch.

It is also significant that this story lives on and can reach audiences in different ways. It's an important story, just like i knew, after gaining more knowledge about this kind of crime, the abuses and the crime that goes on where the WEAPON is invisible – psychological violence. It is also important to understand that anyone can fall victim to psychological violence, even though the same number ( alla ) think they are safe. Mental violence destroys people and is not punishable. But misleading someone to take their money is punishable and because I was able to prove it, this particular offender received the community punishment. But that this happens is not part of the norm. And the Swedish justice system lags behind e.g. ex GB, where psychological violence as a means of robbing others IS punishable. Hopefully the knowledge about this deepens so slowly, but for that to happen, things must be told and called by their right names.

I hope that all readers of The Destroyer – and many many more ( for example, those who can't bear to get through the brick because the text is so heavy) will see the play because there is a chance that the production will come to a city when you all!

Until today have 1500 people wrote to me and thanked me for the book. It was a terrible ordeal and I thought I was going to perish,

but I have, with the book, able to help many many people – of all kinds. Because people of all kinds are affected, have suffered and will suffer from someone with psychopathic traits, as Mr. Destroyer.

The photo of Maria Kulle was taken by Sören Vilks.