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René Fredensborg: Hun vaskede mine møgbeskidte underbukser som 13-årig – i dag er hun min kone

October 24, 2025

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René Fredensborg: A Story of Broken Ties, a Father’s Daughter, and Learning to Be a Better Parent

René Fredensborg has seven children with four different women. He has a ten-year-old son he struggles to keep in touch with, two adult daughters he sees sporadically, and a younger daughter with whom he feels he is finally learning what it means to be a good father. His own father disappeared when René was six, in the 1970s, and later moved to the Philippines, where he built a house and married into a large Filipino family. That is how René met Shine—his father’s adoptive daughter, then 13 years old, washing his dirty underpants by hand. Fifteen years later, they married. The book he wrote about this, Schuft, is not a scandal memoir. It is an investigation into what happens when family ties break, and what it takes to repair them.

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  • 1 (00:02) **Introduction and René's Background** - René Fredensborg introduces himself as a freelance journalist and radio host, and explains his chaotic life and the premise of his book "Schuft".
  • 2 (02:14) **The Extraordinary Family Situation** - René explains the unusual relationship with his father's daughter, who is now his wife.
  • 3 (05:05) **How He Met His Wife, Shine** - René details how he met his wife through his father in the Philippines.
  • 4 (07:43) **Father's Rejection and the "Schuft" Question** - René's father initially refused to let him marry Shine, calling René a "disaster" or "schuft" (scoundrel).
  • 5 (09:29) **René's Own Broken Relationships** - René reveals he has seven children with four different women, and has broken relationships with some of them.
  • 6 (12:16) **The Search for a Father Figure** - René discusses the lack of a father figure and the need for acknowledgment.
  • 7 (14:46) **The Taboo of Broken Relationships** - René explains why broken family relationships are a taboo subject in Denmark.

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Show Notes

Journalist og forfatter René Fredensborg gæster Ikke et ord om politik med Morten Messerschmidt.

Han fortæller åbent om forholdet til sin far, det brudte bånd til sin mor og de komplicerede relationer til sine børn og tidligere koner.
“Hun vaskede mine møgbeskidte underbukser som 13-årig – i dag er hun min kone.” siger René. 

Det er en samtale om familie, skyld, kærlighed og gentagelse – og om at kæmpe med de mønstre, man selv er rundet af.

🎧 Lyt med, når René Fredensborg vender blikket mod sig selv, sit ophav og den kærlighedshistorie, som stadig vækker opsigt.
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