Nielson was asked yesterday in the talk show of Beau van Erven Dorens about cheating on his wife Hanna. “You just got pulled through the ditch by all those juice channels!”
People are naturally interested in gossip and backbiting, but on television ‘private should be private’ is a very popular opinion. You see talk show hosts struggling with it: they shout very loudly that they find relationship troubles something intimate, but in the meantime they just ask the questions that people at home are curious about with a long run-up.
‘How are you?’
Beau van Erven Dorens did that yesterday with his guest Nielson, who has been discredited because he cheated with a fan. Two things mean that Nielson now hardly suffers from an image problem: he has not made any pathetic excuses for his cheating and there is compassion because his one night stand feel a little psycho behaves.
With an easy bridge, Beau brings the conversation to his adultery: “By the way, you also need quite a bit of support, because you have had a hard time. How are you now?”
Nielson: “Well, I don’t need any support, Beau. That is exaggerated.”
Through the ditch
Beau sympathizes with Nielson. “Well, I think so. I think: that guy was just pulled through the ditch by all those juice channels.”
Nielson: “Yes, no look, I mean: I’ve been doing this for ten years now and I made a stupid mistake and I’m responsible for it at home, but I’m really not too concerned with what you think of it or what someone else thinks of that, because yes: in the first place it concerns my wife, so that is where my focus lies.”
Long run-up
Nielson has already responded extensively to his cheating in front of the RTL Boulevard camera, so there is not much left to ask, but Beau still wants something more. He then takes an incredibly long run-up: “I say it too, because it speaks for you… If you don’t know about it, Michiel (Vos, ed.), you certainly don’t know what it’s about…”
Then: “We’re not going to discuss that any further… But if you take the attack and you say, okay guys, this happened, I’m sorry and I’m going to sort it out, I have to sort it out with my lover and with no one else, then I actually find that very cool.”
It goes on and on: “We are in a society in which everyone is supposedly allowed to know everything about each other and you have to close your eyes to that all the time, but you really went for it and you said: f*ck itI step out: it is true.”
‘Nice’
Nielson listens to it all with resignation and then replies: “Is it tough or is it just kind of the only way? There was also little to refute or anything. It was what it was. I am now just trying to figure it out with my wife and fortunately that is going very well.”
Beau: “Beautiful.”