‘Absolutely. We loved each other very much and had fantastic years,’ says De Jongh. ‘We have experienced and lived through a lot and I am grateful for that. What happened is bad and sad and I would have preferred it to be different, but now, a year later, I have made peace with it and I think it has brought me closer to myself. It was forced, but it was a good lesson. A hard one, but a beautiful one.’
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De Jongh also says she sometimes feels lonely, but that she is generally doing well. ‘Saying goodbye to a relationship or the sadness about it does not go away in a certain period. I have learned that it goes in waves. Sometimes I wake up and feel quite good, but then something happens a little later and I have a bad moment. Still, I feel – I dare say it out loud – very good compared to last year.’
The dancer does not have a new relationship yet, she says. She is open to it, if someone comes her way, ‘but I take into account that I might remain single,’ she says. ‘Someone has to come from a very good home for me to start something with it. It has been restless for a long time recently and I really like the peace that I experience now.’
