Quite remarkable: a friend of Martijn Krabbé anonymously comments in De Telegraaf about how he told him about his fatal diagnosis. “I left with tears in my eyes.”
Martijn Krabbé has known it for almost a year, but the rest of the country has only known for a week: the RTL 4 presenter has metastatic cancer and is not getting better. He has spent the past period carefully telling his family and friends, who he then invited to his home. It created many emotional moments.
Crying away
His daughter Michelle tells in the LINDA. how exactly that has happened in recent times. “In the beginning I wasn’t allowed to say anything about it to anyone, because Dad and Deborah wanted to tell family, friends and colleagues personally first. So people came here three times a day for two weeks.”
They didn’t know what awaited them. “Who walked in happily and then left crying. I heard Dad and Deborah tell the same story every time.”
Discretion
Discretion was of course expected from all those family, friends and colleagues, but now it out into the open one of them apparently thinks differently. It now collapses into one Telegraph article from Evert Santegoeds from the school about how that intimate private moment with Martijn went exactly. A rather strange choice.
This insider says: “What strength emanated from Martijn. I was completely thrown off balance. I didn’t know what to say. When the ‘great silence’ fell, Martijn took the initiative to comfort me. That should have been the other way around.”
Fascinating
Martijn’s intimate looks back on a beautiful private moment. “It’s fascinating how he deals with everything. I left with tears in my eyes. That special meeting with Martijn will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
According to Evert, this source tells it ‘somewhat cautiously’. “He belongs to the small circle of people who knew more than the general public in recent months and kept their lips tight all this time, because Martijn himself wanted to choose the moment to come out with his fatal illness.”
Sensation
Martijn said last week that he does not appreciate sensation. “It’s not nice when other people start speculating about your life expectancy. But Deborah, the children and I have now reached the point where we can handle that mentally. Moreover, I expect that the sensationalism will gradually wear off?”
The TV star then also thanked the show press. “The respect for our privacy was and is very much appreciated.”