Wife left Joost Prinsen ‘power of God’ | Entertainment

entertainment">Joost Prinsen, known from programs like The core, The Stratemakeropzeeshow in With the knife on the table, recently told in TV program On 1 that he is currently working on the book And Emma, about the grieving process after the death of his wife. In AD Magazine he says that ten months later things are ‘not going that bad’. “I have had most of the crying spells. The ice I walk on is getting thicker again. Perhaps that is how I could put it. ”

entertainment">A few days before her death Emma to Joost that she had set aside money for years, which she had never shared with her husband until then. “I sometimes asked, ‘How much do you actually have?’ She replied: “None of your business!” Recalls Joost AD Magazine. “She received a state pension for ten years, and she deposited 300 euros of that into the household pot. But she sometimes forgot that. And again. She got 900, so she was left with 600, then it goes up fast, that must have accumulated. And she was much wiser with money than I was. At that time you just got interest, you know, fixed for 25 years. And so that suddenly became 78,000 euros! Seventy-eight! A power of God. It was thrown into my lap. ”

Controlled panic

entertainment">Joost did not have ‘high quality conversations’ with his wife, as the presenter calls it, in the run-up to her death. “That went like: ‘That couch, it’s really too dirty, you have to do something about it later’. It has not become higher quality. At one point she said: “Goodbye dear Joost.” Well, I was shocked, then I thought: now she is very seriously ill. ”

entertainment">People get ‘a kind of controlled panic’ when they hear that they only have one month to live, says Joost. “What they do in that controlled panic is up to them. Just to Paris, or God knows what – all nonsense. One of the last things Emma said: ‘You have to water those two plants a little once every three days, not too much.’ ”

entertainment">In four years, Emma (73) and Joost, parents of two daughters, would celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

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