Fred van Leer is Known As a Cheerful, Exuberant Television Personality Who is Always Up for a Joke. But the Presenter and Stylist is also Manic Depressive. Together with his manager Conny Schalke, it wrote the book nothing is what it seems about it.
Anyone who thinks that of leather builds up the story in his book calmly will be disappointed. In The ForeWord, the Imediately Takes the Reader Back to the Day when an intimate video of him Leaked. Van Leer describes How He Collapses and Considers Suicide. “We Didn’t Want Such An Elementary Beginning,” He Tells NU.nl Just before book Presentation on the Euromast in Rotterdam. “And if we tell it, we’ll tell it exactly as it was.”
“That period was also the catalyst that led fred to search for hisself and start therapy,” Schalke Reflects. “That’s how he found out that he is manic depressive.”
Schalke Has Been from Leer’s Manager for Twenty Years. The Two Speak to Each Other Several Times Every Day. They experience all the highs and lows together. She was Therefore the designated person to Write from Leer’s Story. Schalke Went to Spain for three months to work on it in Peace.
That peace could only be disturbed by van Leer. “Fred is a perfectionist, hey to keep control. So he has seen every sixtyty times.” Van Leer: “You’re Working on It Day and Night for Months. Then I would lie awake and think of something again that had to be in the book and I would send her a voice message in the middle of the night.”
‘Can’t Remember A Day That I Didn’t Have Pain’
In the More Than Two Hundred-page Book, It Becomes Painully Clear How of Leer Fled Into his Work for Years, So that would not be confronted with his thoughts too much. TV Recordings, Theater Performances and Recording Content for Social Media Alternated Rapidly.
Just after the leaking of the intimate video, he was back in front of the camera as soon as possible. Until it all CAUGHT UP WITH HIM in 2022 Duration a Vacation in Ibiza. “It felt Like I was being cut into quarters. I had a theater tour planed and I knew i could do it anymore. The only thing I was sure of in my life was also tasks Away from me. I knew very well who fred the work?”
Physically he couldn’t take it anymore. “My Environment Always Patched Me Up, But If You Don’t Do Anything About Your Depression, It Will Any all out Physical. I Can’t Remember A Day In The Past 25 Years That I Didn’t Have Pain.”
“What I realized from the book is that I have never really really leg able to enjoy the great highlights. Six times ahoy and 150 theater shows. Of course, I Went for it 100 percent, but I Didn’t Really Experience it.”
Van Leer’s Agenda (and Therefore Schalke’s) is not as full these days. But Work is Still what can get him out of bed in the morning. “That’s where I get satisfaction from. If my work life is going well, I’m also more inclined to do fun things with friends.”
‘Friends Thought they had done something wrong’
In The Book, Schalke and Van Leer also GOET GOOD Friends and Colleagues of the Presenter A Chance to Speak. And Those Stories are not all rosy. They speak of his Sometimes Forceful Way of Doing Things and How He Sometimes Doesn’tn’t Let Them Hear from Him at All.
“I think it’s important to show Those lessant sides Too,” Says van Leer About Those Passages in the Book. “Otherwise I would be disowning myself. I have some Sometimes gone too far.”
Accordance to Schalke, from Leer Now talks to his Environment More Easily Thanks to the Book. People understand Him Better Now. “If I’m not doing well, I withdraw and prefer to be alone. Now my Environment Knows Knows Wrong If they don’t hear from me for a few days.”
Van Leer is overcome with emotion: “Friends have some sometimes thought they had done something wrong. My friend Denise (post by Rijswijk, singer of the vengaboys, ed.) Called me and I didn’t answ. Are so CAUGHT UP IN YOUR OWN MISERY THAT YOU SEE THAT OF ANOTHER.
‘Don’t stand on the barricades for people with depression’
Van Leer Hopes That His Book Will Ensure That Readers Understand People In Their Environment With Depression A Little Better. “It’s not that I’m standing on the barricades for everyyone with a depression, but I hope it can create understanding. Because I still hear so often: but the sun is shining, isn’t it? You have a nice house and friends, don’t you? Spanish Sun All Year Round. “
The Presenter Dares to Look to the Future Again CautiOutly. For example, he is making a podcast with good friend Richard Groenendijk and will be back in the theater in the fall. “I’m really looking forward to that again. I’m also blessed that I have a depression in the spotlight. Many people who experience this are completely alone. I Receive love from so many people every day.”