Dave Roelvink is back to square one again. He was on the hook again after a DJ job and then again. And now he has been in a rehab clinic in South Africa for three weeks.
He’s been up since last night Videoland: the last episode of the new season of the Roelvinkjes soap. The ending is quite dramatic, because all the cast members appear on screen with very stuffy faces. Stepmother Honoria even starts to cry uncontrollably. What is going on? Dave is on coke again.
Dave has relapsed
In the last episode of the Roelvinkjes soap we see that Dries Roelvink and his sons Dave and Donny are on holiday in a winter ski resort. “I still have a hard time sometimes. Of course I also play a lot. I spend a lot of time in the nightlife, so I actually find myself in places I shouldn’t be in recovery,” says Dave.
And one scene later, when they are all back in Amsterdam, this turns out to be either untrue or very quickly outdated. Dries says on screen: “When I look back at this series, we had a lot of fun, but it didn’t end well, because last week Dave had a relapse for the second time.”
‘I’m so sorry!’
Honoria finds it terrible and lets her tears flow freely. “I feel so bad for him. I feel so bad for him. He’s such a sweet boy. Yes, how should I say that? Why? I hope they find out why he has that need. What triggers him to constantly have that battle with himself?”
Dave has currently been in rehab in South Africa for three weeks with three more to come. Nowadays he has an interest in a rehab clinic in Abcoude, but that is more for day treatments. What a drama, says Honoria. “He has such a sweet little boy and Jazz is crazy about him. Then I think: how?
What does Jazz think?
Jazz is Dave’s girlfriend. Is she angry? No, sad. Honoria: “She is someone who has a very down-to-earth approach to life and is like: I have a child with him and he is the sweetest father to my child and the sweetest friend to me, only when that stuff comes to a head. comes into play, we have a very good problem.”
Dries drove straight to Dave when he called him in the middle of the night. “Then I see him sitting upright, with big eyes and looking around him anxiously. I felt his pulse and it felt like he had run a marathon. I thought: oh, there’s the wrong stuff in there again.”
Vale of tears
Saying goodbye to Dave and Jazz was terrible, Dries said. “One vale of tears. He had to say goodbye to her. I watched them stand intertwined for five minutes. Well boy, your heart is breaking.”
Can’t he even call Dave to order himself? “Yes, that’s what you think: shake a child like that, that helps. That doesn’t help at all. That stuff is awfully strong.”
One blessing in disguise: the Roelvinkjes can now make an entire Videoland series about Dave’s recovery.