Chantal Janzen: ‘The work of pure employees is now ruined’

“To the parties and to the people who apparently knew about the sickening practices at The Voice for about ten years, kept them silent and covered them up, but now react in the press with ‘we are very shocked’: let this words please for the victims”, Janzen begins her plea.

RTL announced yesterday that it would immediately suspend the broadcasts of The Voice of Holland. The reason for this are allegations of sexually transgressive behavior and abuse of power that would have taken place around the program.

“Yes, I have only been presenting this for two years and have just read in the press that I ‘cannot really say anything about it yet’: No, it turns out that I do indeed know a lot about this program.”

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According to Chantal Janzen, the two years that she has been working for the program is indeed long enough ‘to know that there are also a lot of people, the majority, who DO work with it cleanly and very hard’ and who have a heart for the program. “The work of this large group of people, leadership, clients, candidates and employees, is now being ruined by the actions and secrecy of a smaller group of people over the years.”

Janzen calls it ‘outrageous, sad and frustrating’ and wants it to be clear what it really is and what happened. “Now turn that cover up and put the truth on the table.” In her eyes there is only one order: “The victims and their families, and then nothing comes for a long time, and then all the employees and victims come somewhere, THEY are really shocked.”