On Tuesday, the reality program premieres, and already in the first episode of this year’s season, Jonas Lihaug Fredriksen breaks down.
– A hard start, says Fredriksen to VG.
He gets what he himself describes as a severe anxiety attack.
– Woke up with a lump in my stomach, says the 36-year-old in the episode before the incident.
Fredriksen makes breakfast and talks to the other celebrities inside the farm, but in the end it boils over with emotion.
He describes that he experienced an emptiness. He tries to put his feelings into words:
– I don’t quite know where it comes from, but it reminds me a lot of when I had existential anxiety as a 10-year-old.
The 36-year-old looks at the camera, confused, and says:
– What the hell, do I have anxiety? What is happening?
He gets tears in his eyes and breaks down.
At this point, Fredriksen is alone with a camera team and will talk about how he feels and what the participants are doing.
VG meets Fredriksen the day before the premiere. He says about the incident:
– I started struggling to breathe and stuff like that. And when I put the feelings into words, it completely exploded for me. Then I stretched out for 30–40 minutes with a total anxiety attack, as there is no point in trying to make TV all at once, says Fredriksen to VG.
He says that he got help from the production.
– I had an absolutely fantastic psychology session with the lovely guy who was directing behind the camera right then and there.
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The actual clips of him breaking down, which are shown on TV, the 36-year-old explains are after he broke down.
Fredriksen says that the emotions took over due to several reasons.
He had been with his girlfriend Jannicke Kvisle (32) for two or three months when the recording started, and was potentially going to be gone for six weeks. In addition, he struggled to find his place in the group with the other celebrities.
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He tells VG that it took a long time to get into a better mood.
– Now that it has been a very long time, I am left with positive and nice thoughts. But it took me quite a while. There were probably a few months when I was just depressed about the whole situation, says Fredriksen.
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– Everyone knows the loud and goofy Jonas. But realizing that no one really knows and understands me while I was feeling these negative feelings, it was a bit scary, he says to VG.
He adds:
– I struggled to find my place in the group. So all the thoughts sort of went in one direction, creating a kind of maelstrom of difficult emotions.
Together with little sleep, it all led to a lot of emotions to digest.
– We probably don’t sleep more than three or four hours. So when you get little sleep on top of it all, you go straight into anxiety.
In the episode, the incident is cut down. In Tuesday’s episode, it is shown that Fredriksen collapses after handing out breakfast notes. He says that he felt that some of the other celebrities did not have time to appreciate his efforts and that he wished they would taste them.
In a later clip, he brings this up again, and a video is shown of the others actually eating the notes and thanking them for the food.
Fredriksen says that things happened in a slightly different order than what is shown on TV, and that what is shown as his “rescue” after the collapse happened before he collapsed.
Participant Fritz Aanes, wrestling coach and TV profile, approaches the 36-year-old.
– He says like this: Hey, you! What do you do for a living? I am absolutely convinced that he had picked something up. That it was his way of grabbing hold of me and taking care of me.
– I am completely convinced of that. So it was absolutely fantastic.
For Fredriksen, it helped to talk about the feelings with the others, and that the reality game started to sharpen.
Fredriksen is previously known from the humor collectives “4ETG” and “FlippKlipp” on NRK. However, in 2020 he left the channel.
In 2016, he received, among other things, the award “YouTuber of the Year”. In recent years, he has participated in several reality shows.
