STOCKHOLM - "We'll sue Expressen if Marie has the energy to," states Silbersky in an article published today in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.

  Peter Danowsky, Expressen's legal ombudsman, answered Marie's letter yesterday. The tabloid feels the apology published last Monday is enough.

  "Personally I feel it's the height of impudence," Leif Silbersky says to Aftonbladet. "Marie is in Thailand now, but I’m in continuous phone contact with her. I will recommend her to sue [Expressen]. It has been her intention from the start," Silbersky continues. "The problem lies in her being in a delicate phase of her illness. But if she says she has the physical and psychological strength, then there will be no doubts."

  This kind of personal slander is protected via the new EU rules. Silbersky will quote both Swedish and EU legislature.

  "It's a deep violation of the personal integrity to publish false information of her illness like this. This is a crime of integrity," Silbersky says.

(Camillarox contributed to this article.)

• Aftonbladet's article