In SVT’s program “The question is free”, Pernilla Wahlgren is asked a question about a family member convicted of a crime.
The TV profile was asked by the question.
“It tears up a lot of wounds,” she says in a comment.
Pernilla Wahlgren in the SVT program “The question is free”.
Photo: SVT
The SVT program “The question is free” allows celebrities to be interviewed by people on the autism spectrum or with an intellectual disability, with the promise of “unfiltered questions”.
In this week’s episode with Pernilla Wahlgren, a convicted criminal relative of hers is mentioned by name.
Pernilla Wahlgren answered – but reluctantly.
The premise of “The question is free” is that Swedish celebrities are interviewed by a group of people “on the autism spectrum or with an intellectual disability”, SVT themselves write in their description.
“Unfiltered questions get unique answers”, they write further.
In this week’s episode, the artist and TV profile Pernilla Wahlgren, 57, participates. In one of the questions, a convicted criminal relative of hers is mentioned. You say both the relative’s name and what the person was convicted of.
Wahlgren answered the question – but it was reluctantly, she tells Expressen.
“Tears up a lot of wounds”
“Obviously, this was not something I wanted to include as it tears up a lot of wounds and creates drive. This is something that happened several years ago and has taken a toll,” she says in a comment to Expressen.
The relative has not previously been named as a criminal by SVT.
Expressen has contacted the program’s responsible publisher, Christina Hill, to ask why they chose to do it in such a program, but not in the news reporting. She refers to Charles Franz, editorially responsible for the program. He in turn refers to Hordokht Moravejzadeh, project manager for “The question is free”.
According to her, it was not a complicated decision to name Pernilla Wahlgren’s relatives as criminals.
“It was something they were curious about”
– Yes, it is the reporters who were curious and wanted to ask the questions, says Hordokht Moravejzadeh.
– In any case, we felt that it was so important that the reporters were allowed to ask their questions directly. Unfiltered. So that we made the decision that they had to say the name.
It is an attitude that SVT does not usually have, “that the information is available elsewhere”.
– Yes, now we chose to ask her. Or so the reporters did. It was something they were curious about. And wanted to know and understand. And they have every right to do that. And then Pernilla can answer as she wants, of course.
Expressen has searched for Pernilla Wahlgren’s relatives.
