Charlotte Fich husband Per Fly Parkinson’s diagnosis, Digi Mart USA News: Drama was plentiful when the DR series “Høst” recently began with a 65th birthday that went badly wrong when the birthday person revealed surprising plans for the future.
Things were not nearly as dramatic when Charlotte Fich blew out 65 candles on a layer cake a few weeks earlier. The actress, who plays a farm wife in “Høst” alongside her former “Rejseholdet” co-star Lars Brygmann, says she feels good about her age and what the future holds.
“It fits well with my life situation that there are not that many years left until I can receive the state pension. And it fits well with my life that I am a grandmother and can give myself time for it.
“I have experienced many good things and many exciting things in my life. So I feel that it is fine if my strength decreases a little.”
“As a 45-year-old you may struggle more with the arrival of a time when the body changes a lot. Now I do not feel at all that it is a shame to grow older.
It is actually quite nice, because it is also something good that is coming,” says Charlotte Fich, whose only grandchild is just under two years old.
Although much good lies ahead for grandmother Fich, a future that could be difficult for her and especially for her husband, film director Per Fly, also looms. He has been diagnosed with the feared Parkinson’s disease.
“It has not changed my life yet, fortunately. He still feels very good and takes very little medication.
But it is clear that it is something we have to deal with, and there are a lot of conversations we need to have at some point about how we will handle it if it gets worse,” says Fich, who has known her husband for more than 40 years and who celebrated their silver wedding anniversary with him last year.
“What we live on now is that we have known each other so long, so we have become better and better at having a conversation about who we are together and how we can do things.
“I think we have been really good at being husband and wife all these years, if I may say so myself.”
Fich and Fly have managed through the first many years, although neither has had ordinary nine-to-five jobs, and there have also been a couple of sons to look after.
“We have had periods when we did not have time for each other, and when we more or less lived apart, because he was abroad, or we took turns looking after the children because I was on tour.
“So we have been under heavy strain in periods, but I think we have come back together every time,” says Charlotte, who long ago promised herself and Per that they would be together forever.
“I feel for those who get divorced, because it is not fun. If I am very hot-headed, I think that if we were to divorce, we would have to become good friends, because otherwise it would be absolutely terrible.
“And if we are good friends, there is no reason at all to get divorced!”
