Clairy Polak does not want to live with Alzheimer’s | gossip

entertainment">The 65-year-old presenter says she wants to save herself a life with the disease. “If I detect a pattern of forgetfulness in myself, I would immediately get tested. And if it turns out that I have Alzheimer’s, I take measures,” she says.

entertainment">Pretty drastic measures, she says. “I decided to immediately end my life. With Alzheimer’s you should not delay too long, because otherwise you know for sure that you are no longer in control. And my experience with that disease is such that I would like to spare myself.”

entertainment">The presenter lost her husband to Alzheimer’s in 2019. She wrote the book about it Gone, gone. In corona time she also tried to write a novel, but she is not satisfied with it. “It therefore remains in the computer.” According to her, her imagination ultimately failed. “I can write down what I have experienced, make a story a little more beautiful or uglier, but I cannot create it.”

entertainment">The presenter of Nova, the predecessor of Nieuwsuur, did not say who she thinks is a better presenter: Mariëlle Tweebeeke or Jeroen Wollaars. “I am serious about this: you will not get an answer to this. (…) When I had just started at Nova, I was once tempted to answer the question who I thought was the best presenter. That broke me so much. “Oh, oh, oh,” people shouted, “who does she think she is to judge co-hosts like that?” news hour a ‘very good program’ thinks that ‘should cling to these presenters’.

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