Just before Christmas there was a really ugly riot around Henny Huisman. He was attacked head-on in the media by his granddaughter Emma la Croix. Has she already been disinherited?
Henny Huisman (74) is undoubtedly a very nice man – everyone always says that – but his eagerness to return to television sometimes really breaks him. He spent the entire time last year peddling a soap opera about his life, but of course no one wants to watch a retired TV presenter from the 1990s.
Ferocious Emma
However, who blamed Henny for the lack of green light from Hilversum? His granddaughter Emma la Croix. That poor girl was brought in completely out of nowhere by Henny as an excuse for why he himself would have pulled the plug on the soap. “Due to a number of events, she is a bit confused and we would like to keep that private.”
In other words: it would not be due to Henny and his desperate image, but to the mental problems of his granddaughter. And that didn’t sit well with her. “It is insinuated that the series will not continue because my grandfather ‘made a decision out of love for the family’ regarding my mental health,” she screeched on Insta.
How are you doing now?
How are things going between the two parties now? Emma was on a red carpet yesterday – she is apparently famous enough for that – and was asked about it by Show news. “How is the bond between you and your grandfather right now?”
Emma: “Well, we don’t have an argument. No, that’s what is said, but as far as I’m concerned there is no argument. The only thing is that I wanted to correct something that was said and was wrong. He’s just a very sweet grandfather. He’s still there for my children. He’s a very nice great-grandfather, so I’m just very happy with that.”
Speaking terms
Huh? This doesn’t sound juicy. The Shownieuws reporter insists: “But you are on speaking terms?”
Emma: “Yes, I saw him on Friday.”
The SBS stoker: “But is the bond still as close as it always was or have you grown a little more apart now?”
Emma: “We may be a bit more apart at the moment, but the basis is love and that doesn’t break so easily.”
“Does he understand?”
The Shownieuws reporter keeps trying. “But does he also understand why you said this?”
Emma: “Oh, we didn’t talk about that.”
The reporter: “That’s all done, so to speak? He of course said that the real-life soap could not go ahead due to your psychological problems, but you didn’t talk about that anymore?”
Emma: “Uh, no, we haven’t talked about that anymore. I’ll soon tell you more about what’s actually going on with me and what happened.”
Will it ever be good again?
Shownieuws wants to hear something more. “Will things ever be completely okay between you two again the way they were?”
Emma: “I always say: ‘Anyone who cares so much about my children and does so much for them, you can only love them very much.’”
The reporter: “So you do that too?”
Emma concludes at the premiere of In Love on Curaçao: “I do that too. Of course. Of course.”
Sweet
Private boss Evert Santegoeds is satisfied. “She talks about her grandfather with love and that seems more than justified to me, because Henny is of course a very good guy. But yes, he wears his heart on his sleeve and then he sometimes says something.”
“That didn’t bother him tonight. We tried extensively to get hold of him, but Henny is especially in love with Bonaire. I believe he is there at the moment.”