Patty Brard is completely upset because of a mean person comment on Humberto Tan’s Instagram page. “Then you don’t know what I’ve been through. HELL!”
She is undeniably a power woman: Patty Brard. In 1993, she was declared personally bankrupt, as many of her then-lover’s failed businesses were in her name. Debt? 2.7 million euros. She has recovered from it all and today Patty has two homes: one in Ibiza and one in the dunes of Almere.
Extremely low point
Very clever of course and Patty is very proud of it. The story about her bankruptcy has been told many times on television over the years and yesterday it happened again: she was in the ‘Back Home’ section of the talk show by Humberto Tan. Together they went back to the places from her past.
And therefore also the place where she went bankrupt at the time. “That was a very low point. That was another one of those moments where I afterwards say: you simply did not take your responsibilities, Patty Brard, because you believed in a fairy tale that was based on nothing at all,” she says.
Angry about comment
It’s terrible what happened, says Patty. “I remember very well someone saying to me: ‘Is this your signature?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Then you are also obliged to fulfill the obligations of that partner.’ That was just a tragedy, but I am actually very proud that I am here now and that I have saved this.”
And that’s why she is angry about a response to Humberto’s Insta. “Today I read a few comments from you on the Instagram site; you should never look at that. One read: ‘Yes, do we have to go back to that house? We know now!’ Then I think: you don’t know! Because you don’t know what kind of hell I went through.”
For ten years
It was a devilish period, according to Patty. “It is true that I was responsible for that myself, but if you go bankrupt in the Netherlands, a curator is appointed and that curator is paid by the hour, right? A curator is very concerned that a bankruptcy lasts as long as possible, because that is what he earns the most from.”
She continues: “That’s why it took ten years. Whoever gets paid first is the tax, then the trustee and then the creditors. And in the meantime you are not allowed to do anything at all. You’re not allowed to do anything.”
Panther suit
Patty has recovered completely. “I don’t want to keep whining about that bankruptcy, but you don’t know what it does to a person. It changed me a lot.”
She concludes: “I had to start over and I am sometimes very proud of the fact that I am now sitting here in my leopard suit and that I still have the entrepreneurial spirit. That I make television, have my own drama series and that I have taken up entrepreneurship.”