Rachel Hazes does not understand where the criticism comes from that she is so stingy and greedy. She categorically denies that. “For example, André’s farewell service was also free.”
According to Rachel Hazes, it is incomprehensible that she is always seen as the greedy, shrewd widow of André Hazes. She does not believe that she is guided by money at all, as some people sometimes claim. She points out that she was not behind the counter in 2004 at André’s farewell service in the Amsterdam Arena.
Character assassination
With that full stadium, Rachel could have easily cashed in, but the merciful widow did not. “As for all those opinions of all those people: that is nothing new. I have been dealing with this since 2004, since André’s death. I have been under character assassination for twenty years. I didn’t do anything right and I was no good,” she says Party.
Rachel thinks she deserves more respect. “I became a widow at the age of 34 with an eleven-year-old daughter and a ten-year-old son. In that vulnerable time of mourning and sadness, I shared everything with the Netherlands.”
Free entrance
According to Rachel, people should also appreciate that André’s farewell service was free. “Everyone was allowed to come and say goodbye to Dré in the ArenA and it was live on TV. No one had to pay a cent for that.”
She continues: “Suppose I had asked for admission to the ArenA, then people would have had the right to speak, because that would have been antisocial.”
Break or crack
Rachel keeps all those critics at bay. “To get back to your question about breaking or bursting: I was there in 2017 and was so unhappy that I ended up in a department that you wouldn’t wish on your biggest enemy. Then I promised myself: never again. I’ll keep that up.”