Nadine has spoken out about people who are visiting and taking pics of Derick Hougaard who is in hospital in a coma.
Images via Facebook: @nadine.net/ @derickhougaard
‘Stop!’: Derick Hougaard’s girlfriend claps back at hospital pics
Derick Hougaard’s girlfriend Nadine has begged the public to stop taking pics of him in ICU at a Pretoria hospital…
Nadine has spoken out about people who are visiting and taking pics of Derick Hougaard who is in hospital in a coma.
Images via Facebook: @nadine.net/ @derickhougaard
Nadine – the girlfriend of former Springboks player Derick Hougaard – has begged the public, including a few of his “friends,” to stop taking pictures of him as he lays in a coma on a hospital bed.
The Afrikaans singer made the impassioned plea in a Facebook post after visiting him in ICU at a Pretoria state hospital. She also claimed that she was being “harassed” because of a disagreement she had with unauthorised visitors.
Derick is currently on a ventilator after contracting respiratory pneumonia. He was rushed to hospital on Saturday, 10 June after Nadine fund him unresponsive at his home in Pretoria.
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NADINE SPEAKS OUT ON INTRUSIVE HOSPITAL VISITORS
Ina Facebook post on Sunday morning, Nadine chastised people who arrived to visit Derick Hougaard in the hospital.
She wrote: “I’ve been chased and threatened since yesterday because certain people allow the right to be with Derick!
“This is an intensive care unit! People are fighting for their lives here! We pray and work for life here! Only Derick’s close family and I are allowed at his bed. These are the rules of the vigilance unit, and please keep in mind that there are other critical patients lying on machines as well! Derick is extremely ill and fighting hard for his life and oxygen.
Ek is jammer om hierdie op n facebook plasing te skryf, maar dis n smeking! Ek word agtervolg en gedreig sedert gister…
Posted by Nádine on Sunday, 18 June 2023
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Nadine then called out two particular individuals who she claimed had taken pics of Derick as he lay in a coma.
She continued: “I am pleading with Louis Liebenberg, Helena Niedinger, and people with cameras to PLEASE stop screaming, taking pictures of Derick on a ventilator, monitors, and drips, and upset staff who are physically fighting for Derick and others’ lives!
“Please do not make me wait any longer at hospital doors and take photos! And I have no idea what these people are capable of”.
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DERICK HOUGAARD ‘FRIEND’ DEFENDS ACTIONS
According to Netwerk24, Helena Niedinger claimed she was Derick Hougaard’s psychologist. She also claims she had visited him in the hospital “to lay hands on him.”
She told the publication: “I just wanted to pray for him and greet him.”
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Defending her actions, she added: “I am not some predator who wants to harm anyone. I feel like I’ve been treated like a leper for someone I care about”.
