Writer-screenwriter Kirsti Manninen faced great sadness.
Writer Kirsti Manninen lost her common-law partner to cancer. Petteri Paalasmaa
Writer Kirsti Manninen, 73, was widowed for the second time in February.
Manninen, who writes under the name Enni Mustonen, says for ET magazine that he lost his common-law partner Jarmon in February. Jarmo was diagnosed with advanced cancer in November.
Jarmo’s daughter took her father to the hospital, when she thought that his father had rapidly deteriorated. Jarmo had had a pinched nerve and had been using the slimming drug Ozempic for a year.
The weight loss caused by the disease had gone unnoticed.
– We were just wondering that the medicine really works well. Ozempic probably worked, but so did the disease, Manninen tells ET magazine.
Jarmo also had a heart diagnosis and a pacemaker. Earlier in the fall, at the specialist’s office, heart problems were suspected as the cause of the fatigue. Jarmo was allowed to stay at home until the end. Manninen is grateful that Jarmo had time to organize things and the couple had time to talk about everything.
– We were both able to say to each other that we have lived together the happiest time of our lives. That was the thing. Now it’s such a big sadness that I’ll probably have to digest it piece by piece for the rest of my life, Manninen tells the magazine, his voice breaking.
Kirsti Manninen is a writer and screenwriter born in Seinäjoki in 1952. During his career, he has published many works both under his own name and as Enni Mustone.
His daughter, Katri Manninenis also a writer.