Roxeanne Hazes and her family were harassed at a Dutch campsite abroad. They wanted to take a picture with her there all the time. “But preferably not when my child is there!”
If you choose a life in the spotlight, you shouldn’t complain about the fame that comes with it. People will recognize you on the street and that will of course change your life. Celebrities enjoy the attention, but a bit of anonymity is quite welcome every now and then. They experience this relative anonymity mainly abroad.
Rox in the Efteling
Roxeanne Hazes also went abroad last summer, but went back to a Dutch campsite. “I went on holiday to France with my family and we stayed at a Dutch campsite for the first time, because our friends were there too,” she says in the podcast. Lightless Lounge.
She continues: “Well, it was really fantastic, super fun, but what you do get of course – and I sometimes experience that in the Efteling, for example – is that if people see you in a place where they don’t expect you so quickly, then people very quickly tend to want a photo. And that is part of my jobI always think that way.”
‘That’s complicated’
Then Roxeanne comes with her ‘but’. “I always find it a bit complicated when my child is there, because I don’t want him there, because he didn’t choose this.”
It bothers her that people don’t see that, says Rox. “I always think: I share what I want to share about him, and some people don’t have the insight to think: oh, she’s walking here alone with her child, maybe it’s a bit inappropriate to ask now. Or people say: ‘He can be on it too.’ No of course not!”
‘He gets the realization’
Rox now also notices that her son is starting to notice it. “So recently at the campsite we had exactly this and then he came to me for the first time to say: ‘You are being disturbed all the time and it is driving me crazy.’ He’s starting to realize a little bit. There was also a girlfriend there that he spent a lot of time playing with at that campsite.”
That girl was also Dutch. “And then he came up to me at one point, and he said, ‘Mom, she talks about you all the time and it’s so annoying to me.’ And he’s five, hey, he’s still really small. But then I also thought: oh, this is the first time that he understands what I do, and what that does for him, you know?
Family troubles
Wilfred Genee thinks Roxeanne is just a nag, he recently said in Today Inside. “What I find particularly surprising… I read an interview that she really wants to be on the schoolyard and not get too much publicity, but I now even see her in the commercials.”
Colleague Hélène Hendriks qualifies this. She defends the only popular Hazes member: “Yes, but you have to sell your record, otherwise you might as well not practice that profession, right? On the one hand, she really wants it, which is logical, but on the other hand, there just has to be bread on the table.”