If André Hazes Jr. breaks up with you, you know one thing for sure: you will never get rid of the associated mother-in-law. Why is Rachel Hazes still so hot with Sarah van Soelen?
It is a very striking pattern: when André Hazes Jr. breaks up with one of his mistresses, Rachel Hazes always sticks around. Whether it is Bridget Maasland or Sarah van Soelen: in all cases there is a lasting friendship with Rachel. Is that to spite her arch-enemy Monique Westenberg? Or is it something else?
‘Scared me to death’
In any case, there is something else at play in Sarah’s case, Rachel says in the podcast Anything Can Happen. “Before André entered the clinic, André called me in the evening. He was sitting in the car and then he said, “Mom, I have a really serious problem and I want you to help me.” But then he didn’t actually tell me the truth.”
André initially kept quiet about his cocaine addiction. “Then he said: ‘I’m completely over it. I can’t enjoy anything anymore. There’s nothing that makes me happy.’ Then you are actually shocked as a mother, because as a mother you think: which way is this going? What condition is it in now? Is he going to do crazy things?”
Soelen grateful
It was a difficult phone call, Rachel said. “You’re talking to each other on the phone, so you can’t look into his eyes and say: how is he at the moment? So then he said, “Mom, I need your help.” Then of course I helped him.”
However, the real help came from his in-laws. “I will remain forever grateful to the Van Soelen family, because Sarah and her parents ensured that my child ended up in a clinic. And I just think: I will never forget that in my life. And then you embark on such a process with your child, right?”
Rachel and Sarah are still great to this day. They were both recently present at a Hans Klok premiere, where Sarah defended her plastic appearance.
‘I’m addicted’
Thanks to Sarah, André is now who he is again, says Rachel. “From our youth onwards we actually had to look at: where did it go wrong? Or where did we have this or where did we have that? You are in talk sessions with your son. And then your child will tell you: ‘Mom, I hardly dare to say it, but I’m addicted.’ And I experienced that as very difficult.”
Where things went wrong? Well, maybe with the 200 euros allowance that André received as a 15-year-old boy? One thing is certain: Rachel’s entire rehab process has meant a lot to Rachel. “Yes, I won’t forget that for the rest of my life.”
Lying
Rachel is disappointed that André was so lying. “I think I confronted him maybe ten times and asked André: ‘Hey, Dre, be honest, do you use drugs?’ And then it is always dismissed as: ‘No, ma, how did you come to that conclusion and why do you think that?’”
Yet she had already figured it out. “I recognized Junior’s hands. I always called him Joe Cocker. He stood like that sometimes, you know? Completely cracked. Then he started talking and he stood like that with his hands, and then I thought: yes, that’s not possible. But then it was always: ‘No mom, I’m on a nose.’”