In 2017, Lundell published his autobiography "Monster" in which he recounts that he was subjected to psychological and physical abuse by his mother during his childhood. Accusations that he has repeated in various media contexts, citing medical records.
Documentary filmmaker Bo-Göran Bodin has taken a hard look at Lundell's description of his childhood in SVT's "Hate". He has reviewed the medical records and says that there is no information about abuse.
We are examining one of Sweden's most powerful people, a 40-year-old man, who has for a long time been exposing his mother on his own platforms and in various national media and describing her as a mentally ill sadist, basically, says Bodin.
Aggression problems
According to the filmmaker, SVT has reviewed all the medical records that Lundell himself published online, as well as additional "extensive documentation" from psychiatry and social services that extends back to when Lundell was in his 25s.
Joakim Lundell has previously said, including in the TV4 documentary "Joakim - an abandoned child", that he constantly wondered why he was not welcome at home and why he "would leave at any cost".
According to SVT, the documents depict a boy with aggression problems who, after consultation between his parents, social services and child and adolescent psychiatry, was placed in a family home at the age of eight.
Lundell's mother and stepfather were reportedly worried that he would harm his younger siblings.
“Horrible upbringing”
Bo-Göran Bodin notes that the relationship between Lundell and his mother has obviously not worked.
There is no doubt that Joakim had a terrible upbringing.
Joakim Lundell writes in a longer comment to TT – conveyed by his manager Stefan Hallgren – that he welcomes the fact that his family and mother are now giving their opinion. At the same time, he believes that he has been misled by SVT regarding his own participation in the documentary.
"No one told me that the series was actually about me," he writes.
Later in the comment he writes:
"I want to be clear about one thing: everything I said in my book cannot be found word for word in the social services' papers. That is completely natural. When I wrote the book, I described my memories – as I remembered them at the time."
"Hate" is broadcast in three parts.
