Donald Trump’s praise for Ivana does not surprise grief experts: “The death of an ex also triggers feelings” | News

“Wonderful, beautiful and wonderful.” That’s how Donald Trump summed up the woman he was married to from 1977 to 1992, who was found lifeless in her New York apartment on Thursday. Their divorce was bitter at the time: Ivana accused her ex-husband of rape, but later came back to it, after which the couple evolved into an amicable relationship. Now Ivana has passed away, aged 73, “which means a second moment of goodbye for an ex-partner”, grief counselor Sarah Van Waeyenberghe knows. “First there was the divorce, which made a cross about the joint future. Now there is a cross left… what was left.”