Eva Jinek has caused a lot of annoyance to Micky Hoogendijk by confronting her unsolicited, live on television, with images of a traumatic event. “It’s absurd.”
Micky Hoogendijk was in his dark blue BMW in November 1994 with her ex-husband Rob Scholte. Shortly after he drove away, a hand grenade exploded under the car. He lost both legs, she miscarried. The perpetrator was never found; There is a theory that the attack was intended for attorney Oscar Hammerstein.
Micky in shock
It obviously traumatized Micky. Her surprise was therefore incredibly great when she was on Eva Jinek’s talk show last year and she casually confronted her with the images of the aftermath. “Is it something that still occupies you on a daily basis?” she asked. Micky was taken by the way: “I don’t see this very often.”
Now, a year and a half later, Micky looks back on this in the program MISHA! on NPO Radio 1. “Yes, that was absurd. I was not prepared for it at all. They would interview me about my new house in Hoogeloon and the big difference that you suddenly move from Los Angeles to such a farm in Brabant and about my work.”
‘It was very intense’
It had not been discussed with Micky that it would also be about the attack. “As if it were some kind of funny video to watch, they suddenly showed the images from a few minutes after the attack. No, they hadn’t said anything about it. I have a form of PTSD that you then hit and that was very intense.”
She continues: “You don’t show a MH17 crash survivor that crash and then say: ‘Gosh, that was annoying, wasn’t it, that you were brought down?’ I didn’t think that was very neat.”
next to Gordon
Micky found it difficult to stay upright at the table. “When you see images like that or hear loud bangs… The body has memories, doesn’t it? You start smelling things, feeling things and the memories clap in you, so to speak.”
She continues: “When you sit at the table next to Gordon and I know a lot about who all are in such a studio, you know that you don’t really feel all that at that moment, but because you are also being interviewed at that moment, you have to you can stay very calm and breathe to keep going.”
No TV tears
Micky was very concerned not to cry on TV. “I felt enormous sadness, but I thought: I’m not going to sit here in the best-watched late night talk show and cry a little at the table with Eva. That’s not quite the intention and I didn’t wish them that either, you know. I think that’s what it’s supposed to do or something.”
Wasn’t she thinking of running away from Eva? “No, because I’m realistic enough for that, but I should have said something, but I was too busy with myself at the time to keep that balance a bit than I could muster.”
Fragment
An excerpt from the interview in question at Jinek:
Interview
Mischa Blok’s interview with Micky: