Businesswoman Mia Wagner regrets in several ways that she agreed to become a minister last year.
She says this in a major interview with Berlingske, ten months after she resigned after 14 days as Minister for Digitalization and Gender Equality on the basis of feeling unwell and a subsequent sick leave.
– On behalf of Denmark, I regret it, because I caused someone some trouble that everyone would have liked to have avoided.
– And in relation to my career, I regret it, because I had actually spent quite a lot of energy building my board career, which ended with the ministerial position, says Mia Wagner to Berlingske.
However, she has “never been as smart about myself as I am now” after the experience.
Mia Wagner, who is known, among other things, as a former investor in the TV program “Løvens Hule” on DR, was somewhat surprisingly appointed minister by Liberal Party chairman Troels Lund Poulsen in November last year.
A week into her ministerial tenure, she became seriously ill in her own home and fainted. She then went on sick leave.
– I myself am both worried and surprised. Five years ago I got a pacemaker because I sometimes passed out. At first I thought it was related to stress, but the doctors found out that I had heart problems, Mia Wagner wrote on Instagram in this connection.
– That’s why I got a pacemaker, and since then I haven’t been on sick leave because of my heart.
A week later, however, she had to withdraw completely as minister for health reasons.
Mia Wagner tells Berlingske Sunday that it was a “strikingly clear decision” to step down, but that it was “one of the low points of life”.
By becoming a minister she had “compromised with my body and would not accept that I was who I was”.
Today, Mia Wagner has regained her composure and is feeling well, she tells the newspaper.
She is an independent consultant in her own company, Impact for the People.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
