“I accept that I am in a wheelchair now, but I do not accept that my whole life will be.”
Who is GK? In 2013 he won the first season of “Norges tøffeste” (Norway’s Toughest), a physical competition series on NRK, Norway’s national broadcaster. In 2015 he took silver for Norway at the IMMAF European MMA Championships, then turned pro.
On 30 May 2021 he dove into shallow water on the Oslo waterfront and was paralysed from the chest down. A week later, from his hospital bed, he asked for a film crew. Years of filming became “Fighter”, a three-part series on TV 2, Norway’s largest commercial broadcaster, and a feature film shown at CPH:DOX, Series Mania and Zurich Film Festival.
He also took the City of Oslo to court over responsibility for the spot, and took the case all the way to Norway’s Supreme Court. Today he tells the whole story on stage, with humour, gravity and honesty.