Wilfred Genee has doubts about Theo Maassen, even now that he has had his wife Joyce deny through his management that she is a victim of domestic violence. “Those apps remain.”
Theo Maassen’s wife, Joyce, had known for months that the weekly magazine Privé would publish a major article about her husband’s alleged domestic violence. Now that the magazine has revealed that she was a victim of this and that he allegedly broke her nose, among other things, she still denies everything after two weeks.
‘That’s not handy’
Private boss Evert Santegoeds points out that he has a 120,000-word app conversation in which Joyce talks about domestic violence. Joyce initially had no problem with Privé using it for the article, but only requested that he not quote from it literally, but to paraphrase from it. So retell.
René van der Gijp notices Today Inside that Joyce may deny it, but that the app conversation is of course still there. “But she did have that app traffic with the other one, of course, which is not useful.”
Rancorous NSB member
Joyce has given implicit permission to use the apps, but not explicitly. Johan Derksen: “She says: I never gave permission for third parties to read that.”
René: “Yes, but that’s what the other one (Theo’s former mistress Angela, ed.) did of course.”
Johan: “Well, that’s why I call her a vindictive NSB member.”
He has to go
It bothers Johan that Theo has now more or less been cancelled. “The whole of the Netherlands has already declared that boy dead. He is no longer allowed to perform, sister is no longer allowed to perform, ‘because it is terrible with that boy’. But that’s what I mean… That smear! They hear something and it has to be destroyed immediately! It has to go!”
In any case, Johan praises that the VPRO did not drop him. “They did it very sensibly. Kept the peace and didn’t intervene immediately and so on. Just research it carefully and then come up with a nuanced opinion.”
Defamation case
Wilfred Genee thinks that Theo can only save his name if he takes the Private to court. “In his case, just like what that lawyer said yesterday at Op1 about Matthijs, I would start a defamation case.”
René: “Yes, that app traffic will remain.”
Wilfred: “Yes, that app traffic will remain and so will those emails of course.”
Özcan Akyol wonders whether a defamation lawsuit is useful: “Aren’t you making it bigger?”
‘Sticks’
Johan: “Yes, but René, if we have marital problems or we do something at home and we text about it together and so on and one of us takes it to a magazine like Privé, isn’t that criminal?”
Wilfred: “You say that a defamation case makes it bigger?”
Özcan: “Yes, then it sticks to you. Then it will stick.”