Linda de Mol is under fire now that she drops chunks here and there from her column about the Voice scandal. “Are you going to apologize for your foul mouth too?”
Linda de Mol’s magazine has been throwing the media crumbs from her long-awaited column about the Voice scandal and the misconduct of her ex Jeroen Rietbergen for two days in a row. The target? Boosting the loose sales of her magazine, which has fallen into heavy weather. “Where you see a bastard, Linda sees a business model”, says No style.
Hands in innocence
Linda crawled into the victim role in the first passages from her column yesterday and in today’s chunks denies that she is back together with Jeroen Rietbergen. Tomorrow the entire six-page story will appear, but GeenStijl has the summary already in their hands: “It is everyone’s fault except Linda de Mol’s.”
Also Jan Dijkgraaf, columnist and biographer of the Meilandjes, completely misses the hand in Linda’s own bosom. “Conclusion: you wash your hands in innocence and you are pathetic,” he writes in his Letter from Jan.
garbage dump
Jan especially wonders whether Linda will also apologize in her column to all the critics she has puked under in a childish way. She called Beau van Erven Dorens, Rob Goossens and Youp van ‘t Hek ‘sensation-seeking opinion makers’ and spoke of ‘that sad, intensely false’ Angela de Jong as ‘the great leader of this bizarre smear campaign’.
“I know that thanks to the ‘protection’ of your manager Xenia Kasper, you are used to just choking ‘journalists’ and ‘columnists’ around you. Nevertheless, it is not normal how you ranted at the beginning of this year against media people who do not belong to the Mol clique and who simply wrote down or told facts and their opinion,” said Jan.
“Are you apologizing to them in your editorial for that filthiness?”
Victim role
According to critics, it says a lot that Linda spoke about a smear campaign at the time. The biggest scandal in Dutch TV history had just come to light and Linda was unable to see beyond her own position. Even now, eight months later, according to experts such as Rob Goossens, she continues to play the victim role.
Jan agrees. He thinks Linda’s victim role is completely misplaced. “You claimed that Dirty Jeroentje ‘was sufficiently destroyed’. You suggested that you, the De Mol family, ‘must be destroyed because we are rich and powerful’. Are you going to get up there and come back?”
Juice channels
The juice channels also focus on Linda. For example, Yvonne Coldeweijer finds it ‘strange’ that Linda suddenly claims that she never knew anything about the misconduct at The Voice, while Jeroen Rietbergen wrote something else in his statement. “I have always found Jeroen’s statement credible. And now Lin says she never knew?”
And the juice channel Juice Channel cites a source who claims that Linda was seen in August 2020 eating at the restaurant with Jeroen and Ali B all evening. julia’s in Portugal. “If you know that someone has been raping girls, you wouldn’t sit there laughing and eating in public, would you?”
What does Angela say?
Angela de Jong writes in her today AD column that she thinks Linda comes across as ‘pretty stupid’ and that she takes everything very much to herself. “The editorial also only raises more questions. What about what she thinks is ‘wrong sentence’ in Jeroen’s official statement, who reported that Linda was aware of a number of missteps?”
According to Angela, it is not clear why Jeroen wrote that down. And had she also kept her mouth shut to her brother in 2020 about the two women who accused Ali B of rape, if, for example, her own daughter had to work closely with the rapper?
According to Angela, the victims deserve an answer. “This is a missed opportunity.”
