“It’s the way things are, I can fall over every day,” Tefsen said in the NPO Radio 1 program. “I am very aware of it, but I don’t suffer from it. I take it into account, it will not be unexpected. I am of the age for it.”
Tefsen doesn’t think it’s a bad thing to die. “Only when I am in pain,” adds the Say Aaa-star to that. “But I think that something still happens after death. There is something behind it. I think that we are only a very small part of a terribly large whole, which is very well organised.”
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The actress hopes that she may still see people there who have already died: “I would like to talk to my parents.”
The actress hopes that she does not die before her husband, Ger Hinrichs, with whom she has been together for almost sixty years. “I’m much better off alone,” she says. “My husband is gloomy and afraid that he will be left alone, that is his character. I think that women can do that better anyway. I would think it a terrible shame, we have a good time together. It is an age when you start looking out for each other and keeping an eye on each other. You are happy with every nice thing that happens.”
Tefsen says that she still misses colleague and friend Sjoukje Hooymaayer, who died in 2018. The two women played together for fourteen years Say Aaa. “She is dead, other colleagues such as John Leddy and Manfred de Graaf are dead,” she said. The Press Stand. “It’s strange: as you get older, so many people where you worked die. But it’s also the course of things.”
Despite her respectable age, Tefsen remains active as an actress. She will be seen in the SBS series in the near future West Medical Center where she has a recurring guest role.