![]() Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine. JCM: It said well Marianne it's come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. RB: I know you don't have the letter in front of you, but can you remember part of it? Leonard Cohen sent a heart-touching goodbye letter within two hours of finding out that Marianne Ihlen was on her deathbed. And then in the doorway, she was just seeing the silhouette, was a man who was calling to her and said 'I know that you're Marianne, and I know what's happened, come out in the sun and have a glass of wine.' And that was Leonard and he took such good care of her. And she came in there with her little basket, with her little baby and she was crying to this Greek lady. When Marianne came to Hydra after giving birth in Norway, her husband was not there. We went to Hydra, the same place they went on their first big trip but as we got closer to Hydra, more and more of the talk was about Leonard because her husband deserted her right after the birth of their son. ![]() Jan Christian Mollestad: I met her while I was making a documentary film about her first husband, who was a very famous Norwegian writer. Rosemary Barton: We're very sorry to hear about the death of Marianne. When I read the lines 'stretch out your hand,' she stretched out her hand - Jan Christian Mollestad Ihlen's funeral is planned for Friday in Oslo.Īs It Happens guest host Rosemary Barton spoke to Mollestad in Norway. Follow As It Happens on Facebook & Twitter.Her close friend Jan Christian Mollestad, a documentary filmmaker, read Cohen's letter to her before she died. She and Cohen were lovers in the 1960s after they met in Greece. When Cohen learned Ihlen's health was deteriorating, he immediately penned her a letter. The woman who was Leonard Cohen's muse and inspired songs like "Bird on a Wire" and "So Long, Marianne" has died. Marianne Ihlen passed away on July 29th. ![]()
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