Anouk candid in Dutch program: “Been in hospital three times with an overdose”

“Last time I was in the heart wards among all the 80-year-olds. That was a low point,” she says. “I actually thought it was very sad that I was occupying such a bed.” She also drank once so much that she ended up in the hospital. “That they then flush your whole body. I felt like such a loser, especially with those kids (The singer has six, ed.) If people had known about that, I could have just lost the kids. That was also the last time.”

She doesn’t go into detail when she was last in hospital, but it was around her second husband’s divorce in 2008. “I didn’t have them all listed. It took me a while to process all that. That took me a few years.” The children have also ensured that she got her life back on track. “At some point you are a certain age and you have children: grow the fuck up.”

No contact with Ali

During the program, which can be seen on public broadcaster NPO3, she also looked back at the scandals that erupted at the end of last year. The voice of Holland† She was a coach in the talent show for years, from which she has now stepped out. Ali B. is accused of rape, among other things. “I didn’t like it very much at first The voice of Holland, but I did have a good time with Ali. He’s the reason I stayed,” she says. But she no longer needs contact. “I don’t need it. Yes, that is life.”

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