At the end of the long-awaited docuseries about André Hazes Jr., Monique Westenberg answers a pressing question, namely: does she want to continue with him or not? “I’m too scared.”
It has kept the show media busy for quite some time: are André Hazes Jr. and Monique Westenberg getting back together or not? She is extensively featured in his new documentary for Videoland, which premiered last night. Also about his marriage proposal on December 12, 2020 and the break-up of the engagement three months later.
‘I hated him’
André admits that he did that ‘not nicely’ and Monique says: “I hated him. I was in so much pain, so much pain. That was a blow. A real blow. I didn’t see it coming. Because of what it was like at home. We went on vacation and his behavior there changed at once. I didn’t understand what happened there.”
According to him, Monique had fallen in love with a man he could not stay and therefore ended the relationship. She: “I didn’t want him to be someone. Himself. Only he doesn’t know who he is. I can’t say exactly who he is either, because I’ve seen and passed him in so many guises.”
‘Finally, Dre’
Monique is incredibly happy that André decided to kick the habit last summer. “I read on the internet early in the morning: ‘André Hazes has a burnout.’ Then I thought, okay, something is really wrong now. We went facetime and then he said, ‘I have something to tell you. I’ll be gone for a few months. I’m going to rehab.’ I cried and said, ‘Finally, Dre, finally.’”
She says she has ‘begged and prayed’ for this for years. “Would he please take on his childhood traumas, because that’s where everything came from. ‘I am Hazes’, ‘it’s my genes’, ‘I can’t be happy in this life’, ‘I can’t be happy with anyone in this life’. My phone is full of these kinds of statements from him.”
big love
André tells in the documentary that Monique was and may still be the one for him: “I notice, and that may sound really stupid because I’m only 28, that I’ve already had my great love. It just didn’t work anymore.”
He continues: “I’ve always thought that was a shame and when someone else comes into my life, I try that and I can really fall in love with that. Only I really don’t feel like building it up anymore, because nobody is going to feel what we have felt anymore.”
Try again
André would very much like to try again. “Monique knows me and knows how she was with me in the beginning and how much has happened after that. He saw me slide off. The fact that I am like that now means a lot to her. She also says, “I prayed for this man for seven years.” I only wish one woman who I am now and that is Monique.”
He continues: “I have to fix myself first, but if I did and I wouldn’t try again with her this way, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life. That’s where my focus is.”
Will Monique?
Does Monique want that too? “What I find difficult: the way you are now, that’s how I’ve always wanted you. I was hoping one day you would be like that and now we’re not together. I find that difficult.”
She continues: “How do I see the future? Unfortunately I don’t have a crystal ball. I don’t know, I find it difficult. Would you now ask me: ‘Do you want a relationship with this man again?’, I say: ‘No’, because I couldn’t even do it. I also wish Dre that, but I am also much too scared.”
André: “There is no woman in the world whom I love as much as Monique. That will never happen again.”
