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Dolph Lundgrensays his fiancéeEmma Krokdal"is very mature for her age."
While discussing his relationship with journalist Graham Bensinger during an appearance onIn Depth with Graham Bensinger, Lundgren, 65, said Krokdal, 25, “was like an angel that was sent down to help me” before offering his take on the couple’s 40-year age gap.
TheRocky IVstar admitted that the difference in age between himself and Krokdal, a personal trainer, is “severe” before noting that he has “been with people that are twice her age [who are] less mature than she is.”
“I feel like Emma is very mature for her age, for sure. She’s had an interesting life. She came over here from a small town in Norway,” he said. “She was married here and she went through a difficult divorce and went through a lot of stuff that most young people her age don’t have to deal with.”
“So she’s quite mature and at the same time, I think I’m quite youthful,” Lundgren continued. “But you know, I’ve been with people that are twice her age [who are] less mature than she is.
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“How old was [Albert] Einstein when he wrote the Theory of Relativity?” Lundgren added in the interview, while discussing his engagement to Krokdal. “He was in his early twenties. They don’t have as much life experience, but it doesn’t mean you can’t relate to them.”
Einstein famously first published hisSpecial Theory of Relativityin 1905 at age 26 and later published hisGeneral Theory of Relativityin his mid-30s, according to the Nobel Prize website.
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Lundgren and Krokdal got engaged in June 2020, sharing the news onInstagramwith a photo of his bride-to-be showing off her engagement ring. “Something very special happened here in Sweden,” Lundgren wrote in the caption.
“Pinch me❤️,” Krokdal wrote in her ownInstagram postat the time.
Dolph Lundgren and Emma Krokdal.joce zerojack/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
“It’s just because we lost two years,” he said at the time. “So hopefully next year, we’re gonna go to Scandinavia, and you can’t do it in the winter or you’ll be in the middle of a snowstorm. So hopefully we’ll do it maybe next spring or something in Norway or Sweden.”
source: people.com
