“I now feel calmer than ever, maybe even liberated. As I always say: in my relationship with Frank everything was possible, but nothing was allowed. If I wanted to go to the city for no reason, then I couldn’t. There always had to be a reason are,” says Rogier in Story.
Rogier thinks he was ‘a show pony’ for Frank. “Frank lives exclusively for the outside world as a kind of noble bon-vivant, when in fact he is of very simple origin.” ‘The arrogance of uncertainty’, Rogier always called it.
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Rogier indicates that he loved Frank ‘dearly’, but according to him that was at the expense of himself. “I was very sad about our breakup.” He even went to see a psychologist.
After the breakup with Frank, things didn’t go well for Rogier. “Because I suddenly got all the freedom I was quite unhinged at a certain point.” For days he celebrated house parties, which involved alcohol and drugs. In retrospect, Rogier thinks it was a coping process for him. “For me it was an escape. Away from my sorrow.” He used drugs for a year and a half. “I always knew that when my sadness was gone, I would stop.”
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Roger has now found peace. “Looks like I’m finally growing up.” And what will he do with his work? “I’ll see exactly what it will be.”
Rogier’s ex, Frank, was a guest in a while ago Aran on Tour, in which he talked about the split between the two. Watch the entire interview in the video below.
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