Marjolein Robertson almost died at the age of 16 when she endured an internal haemorrhage that she thought was a heavy period. She had to get two blood transfusions, and was in hospital for three days. If he mother hadn’t taken her in, she would have bled out and died at home during the night.
Now she’s telling her story through her Edinburgh Fringe show, Marjolein Robertson: O – but men can’t seem to be able to stomach it. ‘We’ve had three men faint at shows and another nine people leave,’ she tells Metro.co.
uk . Of the nine early risers, seven of these were men. ‘ It’s usually when I’m talking in the latter half of the show,’ she explains.
‘The thing that really triggers people is talking about my injections, talking about the implant, talking about my condition adenomyosis and how it rips open the muscles and I haemorrhage from the inside of my body. ‘Two men have had to run out on the word hysterectomy, which I think is very funny.’ Adenomyosis is a gynecological condition that causes the lining of the uterus to grow into the muscular wall of the uterus, and it’s her description of the lining ripping through this wall that is causing men to keel over.
Marjolein actually congratulated me and fellow audience members last week for managing to sit through the whole show without passing out or leaving, after a week-long string of chaotic shows. ‘But as I was packing up my show at the end my tech came up to me and was like, “Well Marjolein you .