Why I am a bit done with Samantha and Michael van der Plas

This morning in the headlines: Barbie blames ex-lover Michael for her suicide attempt. Okay, you have our attention. He allegedly hit her in front of the children, he would have been a bad father, he would have gone to the whores in Torremolinos, be part of a motorcycle club and have hundreds of enemies, be into drugs, extort people. In short: he would be complicit in her mental breakdown. All of this is illustrated with a photo of her children on Instagram. Not long after, the Instagram post is deleted, but the damage is already done. Michael responds in turn with: “She has to blame someone for her own actions. First Jake, then RTL and now it’s me.” The only thing I can think is I shouldn’t want to write about this. And yet I can’t help it. It irritates me. Parents fighting their disputes on social media. Dear Sam, dear Michael. You are grown adults. Who once loved each other and therefore started a family. Is it possible to keep your absurd love drama out of the press for once? Isn’t that what you fell apart over in the first place? People, really, go to relationship therapy, divorce therapy, something. Even if it’s just for the children.

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