Frans Bauer (51) never visited his brother Dorus Bauer (57), with whom he made TV programs for years, when he had cancer. “I no longer need reconciliation with him.”
The relationship between Frans Bauer and Dorus Bauer was already bad after the singer dumped his brother as a merchandise boss, but has already cooled completely because of the gossip about an affair with Sieneke Peeters. Those rumors strongly gained credibility because they came from Dorus; He would have caught the two in the dressing room.
Frans stays away
Now Dorus reveals for the first time what really sticks him that way. “When I got cancer in 2022, Frans did not visit me at home once,” he says in the newest Story. “He never actually came to my house. In the twenty years that I live there, he may have been there a few times. I thought that was okay. Only when I fell ill, did I find it strange that he stayed away.”
“Then you want to be there for each other? But that didn’t happen, while we don’t live 100 meters apart!
The only time I saw him during that period was in the hospital. Our mother wanted to visit me and asked Frans to bring her. Before and afterwards I haven’t seen him anymore. “
Upside down
The strange thing is that Frans gave all interviews about his sick brother then, and that “your world is upside down.” Dorus now says about that: “That was purely for the stage, because I didn’t notice anything of that compassion. And when I was better, I received the mail from management that they no longer needed me with the merchandise.”
In the meantime the two never see each other again. “No contact with Frans brought and still brings peace for me. He has his life, I have my life. I don’t need reconciliation. And Frans himself has never taken the initiative for that. It has been enough. I focus on my own life and health.”
Only apps
There is only app contact about their mother Wies, says Dorus. “It has not happened yet that we are there at the same time. During the week I take care of her, Frans and Mariska do that during the weekend.”
She turns 79 in the summer. Will Frans and Dorus see each other on her birthday? “They were not there last year. I think they were on vacation. I see how things are going this year,” he says. “I know that if she died, French and I will no longer have contact.”
‘Very chill’
What does Frans say about it? This indeed sounds a bit cold -blooded. Does that cozy folk singer from Fijnaart have two faces?
De Story writes: “Frans Bauer, many people simply cannot imagine that he is so chilly in the family atmosphere, says Story knows that he has no need to respond to private issues.”