Anouk emphatically distances herself from Marco Borsato in the Flemish press. She emphasizes to our southern neighbors that although she worked intensively with him, “We were never friends.”
The hearing days during the fornication trial against Marco Borsato have confused many people: is he really guilty of abuse or has he simply behaved clumsily and is the mother of the alleged victim out for revenge? Unlike Ali B and Thijs Römer, the audience does not have an unequivocal opinion.
No excuse for that
In any case, Anouk, his former colleague at The Voice of Holland, is a victim. “Of course I followed the lawsuit surrounding Borsato,” she says The Latest News. “I had a bad feeling about what happened. How his lawyers’ tactics showed the mother and daughter in a certain light.”
“I seriously scratched my head at some of the statements. Just like everyone else, I think. Look, I am not a judge. It is up to the judge to make a judgement. Do you know what the conclusion is? The way Marco, in his fifties, dealt with that girl is bizarre to say the least and there is no excuse for it.”
Wrong behavior
Marco is very concerned with framing in this case, says Anouk. “He came there for twenty years and happily participated in what he now described in court as ‘wrong behavior’ by that mother. That is no defense, I think. So I am very curious about his verdict. Again, I find it difficult to give my own opinion about it.”
“While I used to have no difficulty expressing my unvarnished opinion, from now on I want to avoid statements taken out of context and prefer to keep the peace.”
No friends
Anouk emphasizes that Marco is not her friend. “We may have sat next to each other on the jury in The Voice of Holland, but I don’t actually know that man well at all. We have never been friends and dealt with each other purely professionally.”
She concludes: “What those men did wrong outside the recordings, I honestly have no idea. I just did my job on the set, retreated to my dressing room and went straight home. I never lingered.”