the bond between them was something special. It is still etched into the walls, reflected in each thing, also in the cover on the yellow sofa. But it is also inside his eyes, becomes visible every time her name comes on his lips. Gitte.
“It is a big loss and loss. We were together almost 50 years. From the moment I got to know her, I was almost addicted to her,” says Ulf Pilgaard. Quietly and thoughtfully.
the coffee Table stands at an appropriate distance to the yellow sofa. There must be room for those long legs. It has always been in the home in Hellerup, where Ulf Pilgaard in a small lifetime lived with his wife Gitte.
But a November day in 2016, ending it abruptly. He remembers it all too well. Remember the feeling that hit him.
“Even if Gitte was crazy sick, was placed, and I know not what, so one thinks not that it happens,” he says about his wife’s long illness and the thing was inevitable.
“So I got a shock when I got the call that she was dead. It was like… It may sound strange, but when I got the message, it was as if all the air disappeared inside me, it just ran out of me. It was a life that had disappeared. There it went seriously up to me, to her will I never see more.”
As he sits there in the couch, watching the popular star fresh out. He’s still easy to laugh. And do it often. Heartily.
helped by the tanned suit from two weeks holiday in Tenerife earlier in the year, similar to the Ulf Pilgaard also far from a man, who soon takes up 80.
But losing is in the dna. Is not to go around. Neither when it comes to old close friends as Ole ‘Bogart’ Michelsen – who died a few weeks ago – or Betty, who passed away three and a half years ago.
“The fact that you can’t talk to you about his past, about one’s own life. It is a big need, that there no longer is any to refresh the things with which we have experienced together. It comes not again. The boys remember the not the way,” he says of the sons of Christian and Mikkel.
the Missed fills not longer so much in everyday life. And he has been – and is – deeply grateful that there are lots of new tasks, which keeps him in time.
“And so I have availed myself of Gitte’s birthday, 7. July to see some friends. I’m trying to utilize it for something positive,” says Ulf Pilgaard, who call what they had together, “something very special”.
Vielsesringen is still sitting on his finger. Version 2.0, you can call the. Years back, he got a namely the old stolen in the locker room during a performance. But to his 75-years birthday gave Gitte him a new one. Similar to.
“It was simply so touching. Some months later, she was unfortunately very ill and died close to a year after. So it SHOULD be there,” emphasizes Ulf Pilgaard.
You say that the old love does not rust. But is there room for a new one?
Ulf Pilgaard turns his guffaw up, when you ask if he’s been pelted by ægteskabstilbud.
“Orc, yes. There are amazing many offers, and I must admit that it is quite flattering. But anyway…. In the here age? Had I been 25 years younger…” he says and comes in thoughts of several very mature men, who late in life has found with younger women.
“But I do, after all, myself. I have done this for many years, also, since Gitte was sick. So, it’s not that I’m completely helpless.” And then he laughs.
“But yes, I have, indeed, desire to find one. For I can walk around and feel a little lonely now. Especially now with the corona, then you are well enough alone.”
“It would be sad to be completely dismissive of the idea. So it may well be that I’m suddenly falling head over heels for one,” says Ulf Pilgaard.
