The missing case of Natalee Holloway came very close to Jeroen van der Boom. He was in the same hotel as her mother Beth Holloway at the time, he reveals to Jinek.
Joran van der Sloot arrived in America yesterday to stand trial for extorting Beth Holloway, the mother of Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in 2005. Her body has still not been found after her disappearance in Aruba. Sufficient evidence has never been found to hold Joran responsible for this.
Same hotel as Beth
The disappearance of Natalee came very close to Jeroen van der Boom at the time, he told yesterday evening Jinek. “I was in the same hotel. We were there for foot volley. I can’t play football, but I was along as a musician. I had to play, just like here tonight, and that’s where I did the party at night.”
And then? “We walked onto the terrace and we think: filming is being done. She was gone and there was a lot of commotion about it, but that this would eventually become so big was beyond comprehension at the time. She was then sitting on the terrace and an interview was played, because her daughter was away. And we thought: geez, that’s that woman, isn’t it?”
‘It’s insane’
It was buzzing around there, says Jeroen. “But it is incomprehensible that this eventually became so incredibly intense and large. We know, of course, that it was. Every time you think back to that, that you saw that woman sitting there. Also those images that you see… It is insane.”
Sounds completely irrelevant that Jeroen was in the same hotel as Beth. Oh yes, that’s right. The singer is just being vulgar here name drop. Does it stop there? No, a little later he also wants to let it be known that he has met the famous footballer Erling Haaland. He also announced that in advance in the preliminary talk with Eva’s editors.
Erling met
Jeroen brings it up himself at a certain point when it comes to Erling. Eva responds: “Jeroen, you also met him. Not only did you meet Natalee Holloway’s mother, but you also met Erling Haaland. When was that?”
The singer: “During the autumn holidays. We were in Spain and we sat down in a restaurant at a round table with friends and our children were there. We sit at a round table and I sit with my back to him and I’m not much of a football expert. I am often in the Arena, but then to sing.”
Great viking
It was quite an experience, says Jeroen. “My youngest son is 16 and my oldest son is crazy about football, he also played in Chicago for a while and he breathes football. And my youngest sees that big viking and the eldest thinks: you are not going to do this, you are not going to do this. “Luuk, stay put.” And Luuk says: ‘I’m going to ask anyway.’”
“And he walks up to that table nice and uninhibited and says: ‘Can I make a picture?And he says,no.‘ I think: are you like that? He says: ‘First I want to eat and after I’m finishing with eating, you can come.‘ He’s done eating and it’s, ‘come!‘
Two words, thirteen letters: nice and captivating…