“When we got his diagnosis, I immediately knew: I was going to stop everything.” Sophie Wilmès pays emotional tribute to her late husband

In her book ‘Girlcrush’, political journalist Hannelore Simoens (35) asks successful women how they reached the top and how they combine that with their family. One of them is former Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès (51). She speaks for the first time with a Flemish journalist about the death of her husband, about how she dropped everything to care for him and how she subsequently chose politics again. “He and I: we were a team. Now I can’t stumble, because there is no partner to catch me.” Read some excerpts exclusively here.

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