Last week Wim Hof finally broke his silence around the allegations of physical and sexual assault when he went on a conspiracy-forward interview program called BlkBox. The interview came out the day before his opening legal salvo against the Dutch Newspaper de Volkskrant in a defamation lawsuit that is expected to last the better part of a year. Wim Hof is suing the paper because filmmakers who were working on a biopic about Hof’s life pulled out of a $10 million deal after they learned about his alleged history of abuse.
My guess is that he’s decided to go public because he realized that he has very little chance of prevailing in court.
And while I was hoping that I could finally put Wim Hof behind me, he spent a lot of time in his interview saying the incredibly strange things about our relationship and outright lying about easily-fact checkable things. In addition to calling Anneke Stoffelen “full of hate” and having “a screw loose” he also said that I was involved in the $67 million lawsuit against him.
Even worse": he said that I was “just a Youtuber.”
The nerve.
He said that I was the lead plaintiff in the proceedings and that the judge threw out all of my reporting as “hearsay.” These statements are either outright lies, or evidence of Wim Hof’s increasing disassociation with reality.
I tried to keep my reaction to his hour long interview short and to the point—exploring just three of the most egregious and obvious errors in his current effort to paint the media as biased and untrustworthy.
I largely succeeded, but I did include a four minute personal message to Wim at the end, because I think the two of us need to have an honest discussion about what is happening right now.
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