Igone de Jongh regrets the statement in which she announced her love break with Thijs Römer. “In hindsight I shouldn’t have done that. Now I’m like: shit.”
It seems that Thijs Römer’s acting career is over. The Public Prosecution Service announced last November that he is being prosecuted for sexual offenses involving minors between the ages of 14 and 16. Two months later, Igone de Jongh indicated in a short Instagram statement that their love affair is over.
Break for the stage
Igone posted a very brief message on her channel: “It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to end my love affair with Thijs.”
However, the two do not seem to have completely said goodbye to each other. In April, for example, she appeared at the birthday of the daughter Thijs has with Katja Schuurman, and she previously congratulated Katja on her birthday by posting a photo with Thijs in her stories. Was that love break real or just for the stage?
‘How are you?’
When Igone joins the BNR program The Friday Move host Wilfred Genee already feels embarrassed to ask how she’s doing. “Yes, I have to ask you those questions and on the other hand I think: why do I have to ask you those questions? You know, about your private life.”
Igone: “I don’t know.”
Wilfred: “But it’s because you put things on Instagram yourself and you indicate it in interviews. Why is it that as a well-known Dutch person you suddenly have to give account? Why is that anyway?”
‘Why do you do that?’
Igone: “Yes, I don’t know exactly.”
Wilfred: “But why do you do it then?”
Igone: “I did that because I felt that way at the time.”
Wilfred: “Yes, it is about your husband Thijs Römer, that you said: ‘The bond is broken.’”
Igone: “Yes, I felt that way at the time. And yes, I did that then. And indeed, what you say: do you have to take responsibility? No, basically I don’t think so. On the other hand, it is not always made very easy for you.”
‘At that moment’? Does that mean that Igone thinks differently at the moment?
“Only about this?!”
Sidekick Patrick Martens: “But that way you have it a bit, I think, also in your own hands. If you just write something yourself, then it’s your words. And if you give an interview again, it might be twisted again, it might not be written properly. And now you are actually in control.”
Igone: “That is actually very well explained. Yes, I felt that at the time.”
Wilfred: “Because you say, ‘with a heavy heart’, I think, ‘I’ll stop’, but you don’t explain why. You just say, ‘I quit.’”
Igone: “Yes, but are we just going to talk about this?”
‘It surprises me’
Wilfred: “No, I’ll stop after this. Actually, of course, I feel very uncomfortable about it. But I’m just amazed at the fact: I wouldn’t do that myself. I wouldn’t put that on Instagram and I would think to myself: figure it out together, that’s mine and not other people’s.”
Patrick: “But people are going to write about that.”
Wilfred: “They do anyway. That’s what surprises me, you know. It’s a very sad thing and I know too little about it. It all remains to be seen how it is. But now I ask myself: why do you do that? I just don’t quite understand that.”
Igone is sorry
Then Igone expresses regret. “Now I can perhaps also say that in hindsight, I have now thought, I should not have done that. Let me put it this way. And I agree with you that I should have thought: figure it all out. But I wanted to do a certain clarity that came from me in that way, but now I’m also like: shit.”
Wilfred: “Yes, I think so too.”
Igone: “Yes, I learned from that. You can learn from mistakes, right?