Angela Groothuizen received a lot of criticism during the Golden Televizier-Ring Gala in corona year 2020 because she sang ‘as out of tune as a cat’. Now she reveals why…
Angela Groothuizen’s performance at the Televizier gala was according to RTL News not to be listened to. According to the program, there was ‘strong criticism’ because, according to viewers, she ‘couldn’t sing anymore’. “Angela Groothuizen sings as out of tune as a cat,” it was said Story even said by a viewer. Very intense.
Angela responds
Now, three and a half years later, Angela reveals why she sang so badly. It was due to her break with director Rob Mooij, with whom she had been together since the 1990s. “My mother was very into it keeping up appearances. I got that a bit from her. I think that’s why I felt so ashamed after the break with Rob,” she says Nouveau.
“I had to do my very best to be able to do my job. I just lost my self-confidence. ‘Did you see that I was sitting rock bottom during that Televizier-Ring Gala in front of an empty Carré?’ I later asked Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, who was present. ‘No,’ he said.”
‘I do not want this!’
Angela kept asking around if anyone had seen it. “I also asked Nick and Simon: ‘Did you see how badly I was doing?’ ‘No.’ But before I had to get up, I thought: oh, I can’t do this, I don’t want to do this. I felt so abandoned. And that feeling was too ego driven.”
Why? “It was really: I have earned that money for seventeen years, are you going to leave me? Now that I’m old? I smoked a lot back then. To be able to deal with the pain a little.”
Extra grateful
The two are now back together again. “But now I am extra grateful that he is back. We just bump along a little in our own way. It also helped us that we went to therapy together.”
“I still see myself as that standalone and I like that position now too. It fits me. It suits me well at sixty-four. Just as I don’t want to tie him up, you shouldn’t tie me up anymore either.”
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Angela’s offending performance: