Özcan Akyol steps into the breach for Tahmina Akefi, the troubled ex-girlfriend of Peter R. de Vries. The suggestion that she is a complete fantasist is not correct, according to him. “I checked it.”
Tahmina Akefi presents herself as the great love of Peter R. de Vries’ life, but his intimates question this. For example, his bosom friend Kees van der Spek states that Peter has hardly mentioned her. Is Tahmina telling the truth or are we dealing with a fantasist here?
‘Terrible Girl’
Tahmina’s book about the love affair between her and Peter is almost ready. She herself claims that this book was initially an initiative of Peter and that they wrote the first chapters together. Most people can’t imagine that because Peter hated gossip press and was always silent about his private life.
Johan Derksen finds her unbelievable, he says in the latest Today Inside. “Oh, that horrible girl. I get so annoyed about that. That girl first stole the show at the funeral, then that harrowing documentary and now she is publishing another book.”
‘Painful for his ex’
It’s all very questionable, says Johan. “No one can control that! I then hear people close to Peter say: ‘I never heard him say a word about her.’ It was probably just a mistress and she has now declared herself Peter’s great love. There is no end to it.”
He continues: “It is very painful for the relatives, for his ex-wife and his children, because all that rubbish comes over those people again. I really think it’s a shame. That girl really needs to be called to order.”
Ozcan in the breach
Then Özcan Akyol steps in for Tahmina. “I can check, because I know that Peter R. de Vries reported to my publisher in May 2020 with the proposal to write a book with his lover. He had already written five chapters and he said, “This is going to be our coming out.” He also mentioned her name.”
Johan: “Well, then she’s right about that, but then I still think it’s indecent to do it alone after Peter’s death if it was a plan to do it together. Nobody is waiting for it and she knows that the relatives – who keep their mouths shut very nicely – find it annoying.”
Big coming out
Özcan states that the relatives were not aware of Peter’s plans. “Yeah, they didn’t quite know either. It had to be their big coming out. The first chapters had already been written and handed in and he was working on them. It had to come out somewhere around this period.”
In any case, Tahmina is not a fantasist, he says. “It was also a very social book, because it was also about people who come from other cultural groups and how you can fraternize. They really planned it together. She doesn’t suck it up.”
Corpse picking
Johan continues to find it an annoying girl. “I do think that girl overestimates herself and is dangerously horny for publicity. I find it really shocking. She plays a kind of holy bean who comes up with an ultimate message.”
“Look, in the old days we would call such a thing pecking corpses.”
