Johan Derksen and Olcay Gulsen in Today Inside.
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Making choices and then being wrong, I’m sure we can all relate to that. And about having regrets afterwards too. In Today Inside That’s why yesterday it suddenly became about Johan Derksen’s marital dramas. He can talk about that quite well.
The reason was American expert Raymond Mens at the bar, who ‘sometimes gets tired of himself’. This has to do with the fact that he can never choose, whether it concerns dinner or a possible relationship. Johan Derksen therefore started talking about the three times he has now been married. Table guest Olcay Gulsen, who recently proposed to Derksen at that location, was all ears.
Johan Derksen’s second marriage was a failure
“I must say that I have already made a lot of wrong choices,” said the man who underwent surgery last week.” “What was your worst choice then?” asks Today Inside-host Wilfred Genee. Johan Derksen decisively: “My second marriage.” “Why not your first?” Olcay Gulsen wants to know. Derksen: “The first was fine, but that lady has died. But that second one… I knew what was coming and I did it anyway.” Gulsen: “You see, if you’re already in something, it’s very difficult to get out again, right?” Derksen: “Yes, but I had already had a relationship with her before.” Gulsen: “You actually already knew it wasn’t him?” Derksen: “Exactly.”
“But she is still alive?” Gulsen is curious. Johan Derksen nods. Gulsen: “Oh, so she still looks, how rude.” Derksen, who indicates that the couple ultimately only stayed together for a year: “He will undoubtedly be watching, yes.”
The wedding party…
Gulsen continues with interest: “But did you have a nice wedding party?” Johan Derksen: “No… No.” The dinner guest between laughing and shocked: “Jesus… how enthusiastic.” Derksen is going to come clean: “I’m not really into wedding parties. I remember, at my first wedding, that we sent cards to all the people. Only six people came to a restaurant at the zoo in Emmen, a very nice restaurant there. We didn’t understand anything. But we hadn’t thought about it: it was April 1 when we got married. Those people thought ‘we won’t let those Derksen include us in the mailing’. It was a very cheap wedding.”
Johan Derksen loves paper shops
Johan Derksen is now sitting on his marriage talking chair, so he will continue for a while. “At my second wedding we just went to the town hall. And I did the third one in Memphis. You must register at the town hall. That’s a lot of paperwork, don’t tell me you can get married like that in America. The paperwork drives you crazy. There was a very old lady behind the counter and she started asking questions. The entire waiting room was full of couples. So that woman says to me ‘it’s the first time?’ I say (whispering, ed.) ‘no no, the third‘. ‘Oh, the first!’ ‘Nohoo, the third.’ But I didn’t want to shout that too loudly, all those people were listening.”
“You have to get married in one chapel and outside are all representatives of them wedding chapels. You can go to white chapel on the hill, you can do it with a gospel choir, a soul band, anything is possible. Next to it was a skyscraper and on the eighteenth floor you had one wedding chapel. I thought ‘well then let’s go in there, right? Then we’re done with it.’ We walked in and there was a sea of plastic flowers and artificial carpet.” Olcay Gulsen: “Terrible.”
Derksen is not done yet: “There was a black gentleman hanging there, I will watch my words, but he was really black…” Gulsen between nose and lips, hinting at an earlier riot: “He was Frisian?” Johan Derksen: “That gentleman was slouched and put on a dress. That was the man who was going to marry us. He had an assistant, a lady, and she had one of those cameras that were ready immediately at that time…” Genee: “Polaroid.” Derksen: “Yes, a Polaroid. He made three Polaroids and we have a wedding report for 15 euros, three Polaroids.”
“What motivates you, if you have failed twice, to get married for a third time?” Olcay Gulsen finally wanted to know. Johan Derksen: “Yes, look… No matter how old you are, at some point you fall in love again.”
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