Monica Richardson June 29 this year published a touching post, in which she informed that her mother, Barbara Trzeciak-Pietkiewicz, who was a television and radio journalist, as well as a producer, screenwriter and documentary film maker, had died. Shortly afterwards Richardson admitted that her 78-year-old mother had been in serious condition for several months before her death. “Mom was very ill and the last year and a half were difficult, and the last six months were a real nightmare. It was a degenerative disease, a mixed diagnosis, […] so it was obvious that things would only get worse. Luckily, I had a chance to say goodbye to my mother before her body left.” – we could read. Now it's the former presenter's turn “Questions for Breakfast” she talked about her mother in an interview for the Świat Gwiazd portal. On the air of the series “I am not a psychologist” she told how she feels after her mother's death.
Monika Richardson on her mother's death. A surprising confession was made
The journalist who interviewed Richardson indicated at the time of arranging the meeting that she would like to talk to the journalist about the grief she was currently going through after the death of her mother. Richardson agreed to broach the delicate subject.
This is a terrible moment, I fall to pieces, I don't pretend to be a tough girl, then there is mourning, you start to sum up certain things, images come back to you, moments from your life come back to you, but at absolutely no point does the question “but why?” arise.
– she began.
Interestingly, the star later in the statement She recalled the words of one of her students who had also recently lost her mother. It was from her that she heard an important message. – You know, my mother also died two and a half years ago. I loved my mother very much, but I felt that when she left, she made space for me to do certain things that I can do now. It's not that when she was alive, she didn't let me. […] Her departure simply left such a hole, the departure of every person leaves such a black hole. Only that it was possible to fill it with something good, something that now is the time, that I need – she said, referring to the mysterious friend.
Monika Richardson talks about how her life has changed since her mother died
The journalist admitted that after her mother died, she started thinking about her own life differently. children. – A lot has changed for me over the past month and a half in my head, in my heart after my mother left, for example, I have a different attitude towards my children. Of course I love them more than anything, I would do anything for them and I probably spoiled them a bit […]. I had the impression that I was a mother, but not full-time, like my mother lived. Because I was also someone's daughter – I'm talking about the female line. And now I'm my daughter's mother and I'm a sage for her, the last link, the senior of the family. This changes my position towards her. […] I feel that I am a source of wisdom for her and I need to be wise to her. […] This is what my mother did by leaving – she said. But that wasn't the end of it.
I, of course, like a well-bred Polish girl, a perfectionist, have a big problem forgiving myself for anything. I'm learning it, it's better, but it also seems to me that my mother's departure has made it easier for me to let go, as Kazio Kutz said [Kazimierz Kutz – reżyser, scenarzysta, publicysta, działacz społeczny i polityk – red.]
– she confessed, after which she addedthat the words “let go”, although they have sexual connotations, are above all “a suspension of morals with which every well-bred Polish girl grows up”. The journalist confessed that “letting go” of all these rules instilled in childhood is a pleasant feeling.