Loretta Schrijver has in the past sent an angry email to Matthijs van Nieuwkerk and his then horror assistant Dieuwke Wynia, but he was too bad to answer.
For years it has been a thorn in Loretta Schrijver’s side how she was structurally ridiculed in the section De TV Draait Door of Matthijs van Nieuwkerk’s talk show at the time. One can handle that better than the other, but the presenter was fed up with it and decided to climb into the pen.
Through the mangle
Loretta decided not only to write to Matthijs, but also to his now infamous horror assistant Dieuwke Wynia, who ran the editorial office of De Wereld Draait Door. When asked about the fall of Matthijs, she says in the Nouveau: “I kind of know how it feels when you’re famous and put through the wringer.”
She continues: “For me it started around 2007 with those deliberately cut-up films in De Wereld Draait Door, which made it seem like I’m completely stupid. This coincided with the beginning of forums on the Internet, where people could express their opinions. And I felt like the laughingstock: you start to think that everyone thinks you’re stupid.”
Angry email
At that time, more than fifteen years ago, it did a lot to Loretta. “Lou got angry that I kept reading those messages, but I couldn’t resist. DWDD was the catalyst in this, so I eventually wrote a letter to Matthijs and his editor-in-chief Dieuwke Wynia.”
Loretta did not make a murderous pit of her heart in that letter, but Matthijs has not answered her to this day. “I explained in it that she is working on it framing goods. All I got was a stupid response from Dieuwke, in two lines. I’m sorry I thought that way.”
Disproportionate
Incidentally, it is going too far how badly Matthijs is being treated now, Loretta thinks. Just like Linda de Mol. “Two people who seemed untouchable. It has surprised me how fleeting fame is in the end.”
“The same people who put you on a pedestal one minute are just as likely to drop you and kick you. And that is supposedly politically correct. I find it disproportionate, the punishment worse than the offense.”