Wouter de Vries made it very clear yesterday in the talk show HLF8 that he is not happy with the love documentary Tahmina Akefi has made about her relationship with his brother Peter R. de Vries.
Tahmina Akefi came out two weeks ago as the woman who stood at the side of the murdered Peter R. de Vries for the last six years of his life. She threw their entire love story on the street in a documentary that was broadcast prime time on NPO 1. Even private text messages between the two were reviewed.
What does Wouter think?
It soon became clear that Peter’s immediate family is not so happy with all those private outpourings. Ex-wife Jacqueline, with whom Peter has two children, also responded tellingly: “I am not going to comment on the documentary. I keep everything that is private to me in my heart.”
And what does Wouter think of Tahmina sharing apps from Peter with texts like ‘Snoesje, I love you’? He was asked about it yesterday in the Johnny de Mol talk show HLF8 and that resulted in uncomfortable television.
‘I keep to myself’
Johnny: “How did you watch this documentary, for starters?”
Wouter: “I just keep that to myself. We have decided at home that Peter’s private life is sacred and we won’t say anything more about that and this is also private life, so I won’t say anything about that. Not whether I thought it was good, bad, beautiful, ugly, I’ll just leave it up to you.”
In other words, he thought it was terrible.
In the middle
Fellow guest Rutger Castricum: “But did you enjoy the fact that she spoke in the documentary?”
Wouter: “I’ll leave that up to you.”
Rutger: “No, you don’t want to talk about that?”
Walter: “No. New.”
Rutger: “But that suggests that it is not quite right after all.”
Wouter: “No, that’s a conclusion you draw. I’ll just leave that in the middle.”
‘Very personal’
Crime journalist Wouter Laumans, who sat next to Wouter de Vries, did pass judgment: “It was a kind of monument for the last few years, in which Peter naturally experienced great love with Tahmina. It was very private what was shown and what you saw.”
“At times I was like: ooh, this is very personal what you see here about Peter. They were things I didn’t know and about which I also thought: so, what do you want with this?”