André Hazes about addictions: ‘I’m just ashamed of myself when I see this’ show

with videoThe alcohol and cocaine addiction of André Hazes (28) was so intenselast year that he was on stage several times under the influence. The singertells that in the five-part Videoland documentary André Hazes , which justreleased a trailer. “I’m just ashamed of myself.”

Hanneke van Houwelingen Oct 17 2022

Latest update: 17-10-22, 14:12

Hazes resigned from all his activities on 17 September 2021 and went intotherapy in Spain for six weeks. In the weekend before he traveled, he used somuch alcohol and cocaine that he said he ‘destroyed himself’. ,,I was happywhen I made it the next morning. That’s how bad it was,” he recalls. MoniqueWestenberg tells in the documentary series how she saw with sadness how herex-lover and father of her child started to use narcotics more and more. ,,Isaw that he was on stage with drugs. I see it right on him. He’s never donethat before. Never!”

André Hazes drank too much. © Still Videoland

Hazes was followed for two years, from the end of 2020, by the Flemishdocumentary maker Cheeru Mampaey. In addition to the singer, she also letsMonique Westenberg, mother Rachel Hazes, cousin Djarno Hofland and colleaguesspeak. Sister Roxeanne refused to cooperate. His ex-girlfriend Sarah vanSoelen, for whom Hazes left his fiancée Monique Westenberg in 2021, wasinitially followed, but those images were removed at her request after therelationship with Hazes ended.

,,I’m not going to say that I jumped a hole in the air that she didn’t want tocooperate anymore, but it was only short pieces. I don’t feel like I’m missingthat now. She will be mentioned. If we had kept her silent, it would have beena different story,” says maker Mampaey, who talks about the making process ofthe documentary on this site on Wednesday evening. The documentary André Hazeswill be on Videoland next Thursday.

For those who are lost in the Hazes saga, discover our ‘who’s who’ below.

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