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"Andrew Bridgen was in Sweden speaking at an event hosted by Robert F Kennedy
Jr’s antivax group while his young son was at home facing a medical crisis.
The former Conservative MP, who has become a leading voice in the global
campaign against vaccinations, ignored frantic calls from his wife, Nevena, as
their five-year-old’s health deteriorated, she claims.
Nevena, whose family hail from Serbia, was alone in London with her sick child,
going backwards and forwards to the hospital, while she says her husband was on
the streets of Sweden “acting as an antivax revolutionary and neglecting his
son during a health emergency”.
It was the moment Nevena, 43, finally concluded that her husband had been
captured by what she considers a“cult”.
Today, she reveals how her marriage and life have been torn apart by a “sect”
she claims has “taken over” her husband.
She said: “The first alarming sign of radicalisation was when it was obvious
that he was turning on us, when our child got terribly ill … There was no way
of pleading with him. The human cost of radicalisation and the devastating
impact it can have on individuals and their families, and in this case, our
family, was spelled out for me for the first time in bold colours.”
Nevena, a classically-trained opera singer, who filed for divorce this month,
claims she and her son have been left homeless after her marriage to Bridgen,
59, broke down and he “abandoned them”.
She also criticises the Conservative Party and the parliamentary authorities
for failing to protect him from “radicalisation”.
In January last year he was suspended from the party after sharing a post on
Twitter/X comparing Covid-19 vaccines to the Holocaust. A few months later he
was permanently expelled and now serves as an independent MP for North West
Leicestershire.
Her interview paints a picture of the paranoia and misinformation that fuels
the antivax movement. She alleges her husband was told by his new friends to
cut her adrift because she was an MI6 spy.
Speaking in a hotel by the Palace of Westminster, where she once rubbed
shoulders with prime ministers and senior members of the government, Nevena
said: “The antivax conspiracy theorist movement destroyed my life when Andrew
became their foot soldier.”
She claims that he is willing to put indoctrination and the extremist ideology
of the movement above his wife and an innocent child. She believes he needed to
“get rid of her” as she did not “fully align with his extremist beliefs”.
“I watched my life shatter into pieces as I lost access to the household bank
account … and kicked out on the street with a child just in time for
Christmas,” she said."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: March 7, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-99907491
Cheers,
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