The appeal against Ali B will start in exactly ten days and that will again cause a media circus. Will Ellen ten Damme show up this time? “It’s been so long ago.”
Ellen ten Damme says he was raped in 2014 by Ali B, during the recordings of his AVROTROS program in Morocco. And although there are strong indications for this, the court only condemned him last year in this case attempted rape. The rape of the anonymous Naomi could be proven and in total he was in prison.
Will Ellen come?
It was a lot of swallowing for Ali, because he hopes to go freely and therefore appealed. That serves in ten days and it can go in all directions. He can also get more punishment, because he was initially not convicted of the assault of singer Jill Helena. If that is on top of this time, the rapper may have to hum for longer.
Where Jill was present at the session days last year, Ellen was absent. “She did report it and made statements, but kept herself aloof,” explains Bart Ettekoven in the Shownieuws from yesterday.
‘Not at all’
Bart wonders whether Ellen will persist or may take action now that there is the risk that Ali will rise. “So she did not go to the Process Days in Haarlem at the time, and I also don’t think that will happen this year, but we have just asked it with her.”
When asked if Ellen is working on it, she answers: “Not at all.”
Why not? “Haha. Why do?”
Long ago
Ellen really wants to close this chapter. “No, I can’t say anything about that and I am not going to say anything about it. I am not at all concerned. It was so long ago. I told something about it once and that was enough for me and what others do with it, they may know. That’s all. “
Understandable, Bart thinks this. He points out what the presence of Jill Helena then yielded for her: “At that time she really came under fire. All hate reactions and so on, so you call that about yourself when you sit there. I get it in that sense.”