The daddy of double Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen pressured his daughter to maintain operating despite the fact that she was struggling to breathe after forgetting to take her bronchial asthma remedy, a courtroom has heard.
Ingrid Ingebrigtsen mentioned that her father, Gjert – who coached her brothers Jakob, Henrik and Filip to worldwide glory and have become a TV star after the success of the documentary Workforce Ingebrigtsen – had scolded her through the incident, which occurred on a treadmill within the household’s basement.
“I ended up leaping off the treadmill, ran as much as my room and breathed,” Ingrid advised the courtroom in Sandnes, Norway. “I attempted to relax. I expressed that I wished to stop athletics.”
A couple of days later Ingrid, who’s now 18, mentioned she had damaged down in tears in entrance of producers of the fly-on-the-wall collection.
“They requested me a traditional query, about the way forward for my profession,” she added. “Then I noticed no future. Then I broke down brutally. I couldn’t management it. They checked out me with their backs turned and have been horrified. The interview ended.”
The documentary collection is probably the most profitable present in Norwegian TV historical past, however Ingrid advised the courtroom that it didn’t at all times mirror the truth of household life.
“I used to be 5 years outdated when the recording started,” she mentioned. “That is one thing I grew up with and lived with, with out having had an actual selection myself. You can simply discover that one thing modified when a digicam got here alongside. I feel they in all probability acquired quite a bit that wasn’t included.
“Your complete collection isn’t rigged, however sure conditions and conversations might have been rigged,” she added. “We have been positioned within the kitchen and ‘now we’re going to speak about this’. However the conversations we had have been actual.”
Based on the indictment, Gjert is alleged to have used threats, coercion and violence in opposition to his daughter, in addition to restricted her freedom of motion.
Gjert, who’s going through six years in jail for abusive behaviour in direction of Jakob and Ingrid, denies all allegations of violence.
On her second day of her proof, Ingrid additionally advised the courtroom that her father had put his finger in her face and whipped her with a moist towel when she requested to exit with mates.
She mentioned that the connection together with her father had damaged down after she had determined to cease operating the earlier autumn, and that she had been pressured to remain at dwelling throughout her free time in opposition to her will.
“He might ignore me utterly,” she mentioned. “I felt like he was mad at me. And sooner or later he mentioned that he didn’t see me as his daughter any extra.”
Requested concerning the incident in January 2022, Ingrid mentioned she had pushed again when he refused to let her hang around with mates between 5pm and 6pm, just for him to place his finger in her face.
“I had felt trapped in my own residence for therefore lengthy,” she mentioned. “I used to be fairly decided that right now I might make it occur. I didn’t settle for the ‘no’ I acquired from him.
“I had been so depressed and ignored for a number of months, I merely felt bullied. I pushed his finger away. To this present day I don’t perceive how I dared to do it, however I used to be in all probability fairly upset and offended.
“He had a small towel that he had been sweating in, so it was moist. He whipped it at my face. First as soon as with out hitting. Then he did it as soon as extra, after which he hit me on the cheek.”
Ingrid advised the courtroom that she then ran to the spouse of her brother Henrik, who lived two doorways away. Afterwards she mentioned her father known as her “many instances and mentioned that if I didn’t come, he would sort of come and get me”.
Beneath cross-examination, Ingrid was proven a collection of textual content messages between her and her father in 2021, which she agreed confirmed that she had by no means requested for a day without work from coaching earlier than she stop operating.
The courtroom was additionally proven a textual content message from Gjert on 6 January 2022, after he was alleged to have hit her with the towel. “I apologise with all my coronary heart,” it learn. “I promise that I’ll by no means elevate my voice in opposition to you once more in my total life.”
On Monday the courtroom was proven {a photograph} of the mark on Ingrid’s face.
The incident led to Jakob and his two brothers ending their coaching relationship with Gjert and going public with their allegations. The trial, which is because of final till 16 Might, continues.
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