Maja Ivarsson was held captive and raped by a family friend.
In "Summer in P1" she says for the first time about his dark secret.
- I escaped with threats that he would kill my family and my friends if I should say a word about what had happened, she says in her sommarprat.
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How to listen to "Summer in the P1 '
You can listen to the show afterwards on SR's website and in the app Sveriges Radio Play.
"Summer in the P1 'broadcast at 13.00.
She went into the second ring in high school, had left home and dreamed of becoming a rock star.
In today's "Summer in the P1" says Maja Ivarsson , 33, how her step-dad's friend suddenly rang.
He was on a visit to Helsingborg and wondered if he could visit.
Teen Maja Ivarsson was impressed by his father's rigid buddy and let him.
Subjected to ill-treatment
Then she could not imagine the consequences that followed.
- He took my spare key and said he was going to stay a while. I did not have a chance against this man who had hurt before. I was a prisoner. He began to decide over my life. With threats and violence, he went into my life, she says.
Maja Ivarsson was subjected to physical and psychological abuse. She says the violence was to smudging.
At the same time he forced himself into her life, she had met a new boyfriend. But as soon as she was going to meet the guy she was in love with was rigid father's friend always present.
He watched her and started to get more and more control over her life. She was forbidden to let his mother in the apartment. Instead, she got to meet her on the street. She wanted to tell her mother that she was locked up. But she could not bring herself to reveal its existence.
Maja Ivarsson does not go into exactly how long she was in the man's violence. She would soon get his chance to escape.
But first things would be worse.
"Left my body"
Along with the man she sat on a train to Stockholm. She had just come of age and wanted to buy their dream guitar in the capital. But they never reached the final destination.
The man should have behaved badly on the train which led to them were returned. There was no later train to Stockholm so they had to go to a hotel. Maja Ivarsson says she had to pay for room and booze.
- He booked the honeymoon suite, locked us up and raped me. I was in the middle of nothing. Life was something else. I was someone else there in a tan room with carpeting in Gränna. During the rape, I left my body and see the whole event from above. The skinny fucking creep with two teeth in flabben and fetid breath trying to take me but I'm not there, she says.
She continues:
- You tore my life and for that you have my eternal hatred. I have no second cheek to turn to. You will never be forgiven. I'm going to trip me up, take my body back and win. I'll fucking have a record deal and become a rock star, she says in "Summer with P1".
Road to the disk where the contract was not easy.
After the night in Gränna she managed to get out of the man's iron grip. She fled to her grandmother in Aahus. Although she had managed to break free from his step-dad's friend was a terror ever present. She would live in fear of the man in the years to come, she says.
- I escaped with threats that he would kill my family, my friends, everyone I know if I should say a word about what had happened, she says, and also tells us that the man threatened to ruin her chances of success with The Sounds.
Took an overdose
She was trying to find herself again but got stuck in an amphetamine addiction that lasted throughout high school. Maja Ivarsson's needlework teacher realized she was carrying a dark secret.
She told everything to her teacher, who took her under his wing. In his sommarprat describes Maja Ivarsson its deep gratitude to the teacher that she is in contact with to this day.
Despite the teacher's help, she was far from certain. Maja Ivarsson had an appetite for life that knew no bounds.
She tells about a visit with her best friend in the U.S.. The friend had gone to Washington DC to work as an au pair, but began selling sex and buying dope.
After a festive night woke Maja Ivarsson up in the shower. She did not know where she was, or what the terrified people who looked at her awakening was.
- I had taken an overdose and been gone long enough to frighten seasoned stoners. The only thing I knew was that it would be such a shame not to get release the plate, she says.
"Chose the hard way"
Two months later, she was on her best friend's funeral. The friend had unlike Maja not survived his overdose.
When The Sounds career took off and they became established in the United States had the drugs not yet let go of the band singer.
Erstwhile girlfriend Alexandra gave her an eye-opener. Maja Ivarsson put in on a treatment center in the mid-00s, thanks to his girlfriend's demands. According to Maja, she had for the first time need to do something for someone other than himself.
In summer talk tell Maja Ivarsson that she wakes up in the morning without the urge for next drogrus. She thanks her then-girlfriend with family and The Sounds that she was finally able to break free.
She worked until his sommarprat with producer Henrik Johnsson. He tells of a tumultuous process.
- We chose to go the hard way: To say that never was said. She chose a path that she knew would hurt a lot. She is incredibly brave and we have worked incredibly hard with the talk. It has been an exciting, time consuming and painful journey, he says.
Maja Ivarsson has chosen not to talk about their summer program.
- We are of course talking about how we're doing and come to the conclusion that being said, and said that the program is allowed to stand for itself, says Henrik Johnsson.
In "Summer in P1" she says for the first time about his dark secret.
- I escaped with threats that he would kill my family and my friends if I should say a word about what had happened, she says in her sommarprat.
FACTS
How to listen to "Summer in the P1 '
You can listen to the show afterwards on SR's website and in the app Sveriges Radio Play.
"Summer in the P1 'broadcast at 13.00.
She went into the second ring in high school, had left home and dreamed of becoming a rock star.
In today's "Summer in the P1" says Maja Ivarsson , 33, how her step-dad's friend suddenly rang.
He was on a visit to Helsingborg and wondered if he could visit.
Teen Maja Ivarsson was impressed by his father's rigid buddy and let him.
Subjected to ill-treatment
Then she could not imagine the consequences that followed.
- He took my spare key and said he was going to stay a while. I did not have a chance against this man who had hurt before. I was a prisoner. He began to decide over my life. With threats and violence, he went into my life, she says.
Maja Ivarsson was subjected to physical and psychological abuse. She says the violence was to smudging.
At the same time he forced himself into her life, she had met a new boyfriend. But as soon as she was going to meet the guy she was in love with was rigid father's friend always present.
He watched her and started to get more and more control over her life. She was forbidden to let his mother in the apartment. Instead, she got to meet her on the street. She wanted to tell her mother that she was locked up. But she could not bring herself to reveal its existence.
Maja Ivarsson does not go into exactly how long she was in the man's violence. She would soon get his chance to escape.
But first things would be worse.
"Left my body"
Along with the man she sat on a train to Stockholm. She had just come of age and wanted to buy their dream guitar in the capital. But they never reached the final destination.
The man should have behaved badly on the train which led to them were returned. There was no later train to Stockholm so they had to go to a hotel. Maja Ivarsson says she had to pay for room and booze.
- He booked the honeymoon suite, locked us up and raped me. I was in the middle of nothing. Life was something else. I was someone else there in a tan room with carpeting in Gränna. During the rape, I left my body and see the whole event from above. The skinny fucking creep with two teeth in flabben and fetid breath trying to take me but I'm not there, she says.
She continues:
- You tore my life and for that you have my eternal hatred. I have no second cheek to turn to. You will never be forgiven. I'm going to trip me up, take my body back and win. I'll fucking have a record deal and become a rock star, she says in "Summer with P1".
Road to the disk where the contract was not easy.
After the night in Gränna she managed to get out of the man's iron grip. She fled to her grandmother in Aahus. Although she had managed to break free from his step-dad's friend was a terror ever present. She would live in fear of the man in the years to come, she says.
- I escaped with threats that he would kill my family, my friends, everyone I know if I should say a word about what had happened, she says, and also tells us that the man threatened to ruin her chances of success with The Sounds.
Took an overdose
She was trying to find herself again but got stuck in an amphetamine addiction that lasted throughout high school. Maja Ivarsson's needlework teacher realized she was carrying a dark secret.
She told everything to her teacher, who took her under his wing. In his sommarprat describes Maja Ivarsson its deep gratitude to the teacher that she is in contact with to this day.
Despite the teacher's help, she was far from certain. Maja Ivarsson had an appetite for life that knew no bounds.
She tells about a visit with her best friend in the U.S.. The friend had gone to Washington DC to work as an au pair, but began selling sex and buying dope.
After a festive night woke Maja Ivarsson up in the shower. She did not know where she was, or what the terrified people who looked at her awakening was.
- I had taken an overdose and been gone long enough to frighten seasoned stoners. The only thing I knew was that it would be such a shame not to get release the plate, she says.
"Chose the hard way"
Two months later, she was on her best friend's funeral. The friend had unlike Maja not survived his overdose.
When The Sounds career took off and they became established in the United States had the drugs not yet let go of the band singer.
Erstwhile girlfriend Alexandra gave her an eye-opener. Maja Ivarsson put in on a treatment center in the mid-00s, thanks to his girlfriend's demands. According to Maja, she had for the first time need to do something for someone other than himself.
In summer talk tell Maja Ivarsson that she wakes up in the morning without the urge for next drogrus. She thanks her then-girlfriend with family and The Sounds that she was finally able to break free.
She worked until his sommarprat with producer Henrik Johnsson. He tells of a tumultuous process.
- We chose to go the hard way: To say that never was said. She chose a path that she knew would hurt a lot. She is incredibly brave and we have worked incredibly hard with the talk. It has been an exciting, time consuming and painful journey, he says.
Maja Ivarsson has chosen not to talk about their summer program.
- We are of course talking about how we're doing and come to the conclusion that being said, and said that the program is allowed to stand for itself, says Henrik Johnsson.