Private boss Evert Santegoeds has put a paparazzo on homeless Eva van de Wijdeven (40). The mission was successful, because the addicted actress is on the cover this week. “Distressing.”
Until recently, Eva van de Wijdeven was a celebrated actress, but after her participation in Expeditie Robinson she decided to hang up her acting career. She started doing something with art and light. Well, that didn’t work out. She is currently wandering through the center of Apeldoorn, we have known for a few weeks now through spies from the juice channels.
Yogurt drink
The juice channels received many photos of Eva, but Reality FBI ultimately decided to only publish a photo of her grocery cart. Weekly magazine Privé has now gone a step further: editor-in-chief Evert Santegoeds has sent a paparazzo to Apeldoorn to track down Eva and capture her on camera.
We see the result this week on the cover of Privé: we see a puffing Eva with a pack of drinking yoghurt in her hand. A fellow homeless person tells the magazine that she is far gone. “You shouldn’t give her money. Eva uses everything. She gets a pack of yogurt drink and a sandwich every morning. That’s the only thing you can give her.”
Is this possible?
Evert is not ashamed of publishing the images, he says Strictly Private. “These are harrowing photos. Should you show them, is the question that the whole of the Netherlands will ask itself. I think so. It is the harsh reality, which is also the case in showbiz.”
“One moment you are extremely celebrated – two years ago she starred at the premiere of the series about Patty Brard, in which she played Patty – and now you look at how she is in the center of Apeldoorn… Homeless with a pack of yoghurt and a cracker… That is Eva van de Wijdeven’s life now.”
‘We’ll help you!’
Actors such as Inge Ipenburg and Tygo Gernandt say they want to help Eva. “Everyone is very concerned about it, but that does not alter the fact that she walks through Apeldoorn day in and day out and no actor has yet put an arm around her and said: ‘Girl, we are going to help you’,” says Evert.
Privé not only sent a paparazzo to Apeldoorn, but also a journalist. “Our reporter Matthijs Albers spoke to her and she immediately recognized him. ‘Hey, Matthijs.’ But she didn’t accept any help from him either.”
Distressing
Can’t the municipality intervene there? “Yes, with so many agencies and so many care providers in the Netherlands, it is extremely distressing and unbelievable that the further deterioration of hair cannot be stopped. There are guidelines when you can help someone and when you cannot.”
“You have to be a danger to yourself or those around you to be arrested and forcibly admitted. But yes, someone who lets herself go like that and is so disastrously preoccupied with herself, someone who is in such a state of disrepair… You should take her fate out of her own hands…”
