“I still thought we were friends.” Carola Madis mourns her friendship with Eeva Esse and discusses their legal dispute
Translated from Estonian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Carola Madis discussed the dispute surrounding the Karavan programme during a live Kuku radio broadcast.
- She said a formerly close working relationship with Eeva Esse had deteriorated into an ongoing legal dispute.
“I still thought we were friends.” Carola Madis spoke publicly about the loss of her friendship with Eeva Esse and the legal dispute that followed.
Madis appeared as Katrin Lust’s guest on Kuku radio on Friday. The conversation touched on the complicated situation surrounding the programme Karavan.
She did not want to discuss the ongoing dispute at length. She did, however, describe how a once-close collaboration had reached an entirely different point.
I still thought we were friends.
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Originally published by Postimees in Estonian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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