Catherine Keyl finds Nathalie T., the mother of Marco Borsato’s accuser and the former chairman of his fan club, ‘disturbed’. “How can a mother say this to a grown man?”
The case against Marco Borsato has partly changed public opinion about him: many people think the evidence of indecent evidence against the singer is a bit thin, and the complainant’s mother does not seem to be at one hundred percent either. There are undoubtedly people who wonder why that mother is not on trial.
Crazy
What does Catherine Keyl think? She is a general expert and has an opinion on everything, including this issue. “This whole thing is incomprehensible. I thought I knew how Dutch society worked, but apparently people also treat each other this way,” she says in the Weekend.
Nathalie T., the mother of complainant A., is really not feeling well, according to Catherine. “How can a mother say to an adult man: ‘Go check on my daughter, but she is naked in bed.’ Then you’re crazy, aren’t you? Marco in turn says that it was a kind of father-daughter relationship, but you don’t do that, do you? Weird.”
Confused
Catherine does not call Marco disturbed, but he does call him ‘confused’. “Marco strikes me as someone who is completely confused, but that’s what I am now too. I’m completely lost. I had such a different assessment of him. I received him in the studio a few times and always liked him so much. No big mouth, modest, great!”
She continues: “And now this kind of behavior. He should have just run away, it just wasn’t right. Marco strikes me as a weak personality, because it seems to be a mix of naivety, disinterest and no strong will.”
Persuaded
Marco has just been too accommodating, Catherine thinks. “You can explain that as being kind and accommodating, that you allowed yourself to be persuaded to do things you didn’t actually want. But I notice around me that men react much harder than women to Marco’s behavior, because of the well-known metoo thing: he should have known better.”
She concludes: “Previously I blindly stood up for Marco Borsato in the media. But I will no longer do that just like that. There are too many question marks here. This whole situation is simply absurd, unimaginable.”