The man who filed a complaint against Maxime Meiland for libel and slander is angry with Humberto Tan. He thinks that the presenter accepted her story too uncritically.
Maxime Meiland is causing a lot of hassle with her, as yet unfounded, accusation of rape against a peer. The reality star states that she was raped when she was fifteen by a man, who was also fifteen at the time. And in the years that followed, she says she was raped four more times by others.
Maxime is disappointed
For years the man has chosen not to rub the stain, but because Maxime keeps talking about it in books, YouTube shows and TV programs, it is starting to bother him. The man told his side of the story in the Story last week and has now decided to report libel and slander.
Maxime says on Radio 538 that she is disappointed with the report. “Yes of course. It’s terrible. I want to close it. After I present that book, you will also have interviews. It’s hard to talk about it every time, so I was very happy that that period ended at a certain point and then you get this again. Yes, it’s not fun.”
“She’s everywhere!”
What does Maxime think of the ‘rapist’ defense? “We now have a lawyer, so I cannot and may not say anything about it. Of course, I really want to say a lot, but that’s not allowed yet, so I’ll keep quiet.”
The man finds it strange that Maxime is so annoyed by the attention, because she talks about it everywhere: in books, in Robbert Rodenburg’s show, with Humberto Tan and so on. “A little later she started again, in Who’s That Girl on the NPO. Then an image of the Center for Sexual Violence came into view,” the man says Privately.
For the attention
Media must be careful not to take someone like Maxime at her word too quickly, says the silent warrior in the latest edition of the magazine. “I was abused as a person for a commercial book, her book. It really feels like a slap in the face.”
He emphasizes that Maxime never filed a report. After all, that would be a false declaration, he says. “Then you commit a criminal offense. I think she understood this too. Because there were so many people there that night. There are six witnesses, so she also knows: if I tell this story to the police, there will be consequences, because it is not correct.”
Humberto is disappointed
It bothers the man that a journalist like Humberto Tan would blindly copy such a story from Maxime. “The talk shows in which Maxime talked about her book and this case never checked her story. They could also have done this through Maxime. Everything has just been taken for granted.”
Now such a talk show functions as a kind of courtroom, the man believes. With Humberto as an unintended judge. “A Humberto Tan should have simply said: ‘But Maxime, you can’t just say something like that in my talk show, without reporting or proof?’”
It was probably Humberto’s dilemma: hospitality or journalistic integrity?
Fragment
Maxime’s fragment at Humberto: