Fajah Lourens quit GTST for financial reasons: ‘I had 1350 euros’ | RTL Boulevard

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At first, Fajah tried to put her career first. So she wanted in at all costs Good times Bad Times play, even if she had to ‘pay money’ to do so. “But of course it doesn’t work that way in real life,” she admits. “So I had 1,350 euros and that is of course nothing. And my daycare was already 800 euros.” At the time, Fajah was already the mother of her daughter Irem. But in her own words she ‘couldn’t enjoy life like others who didn’t have children’. That’s why she quickly decided to earn extra money with side jobs. “Then I got that feeling of making money.”

However, the makers of GTST did not want her to appear at fairs. “Because you are a star and you don’t belong at a fair,” Fajah quotes her ex-employer. “Well, then you have to pay me like a star,” Fajah continues. Ultimately, Fajah threw in the towel and left the soap opera. “I did leave myself, but I left too early for my career.” Although the producer asked her at the time to think about it some more, Fajah could not put her pride aside. “I paid the price for that. My career was over after that.”

Fajah continues: “Yolanthe then came in On the Way to Tomorrow and I went out. And she’s kind of the same type, of course. So she got all the roles after that. Not me.”

Despite her pride, she admits that it was more important to her to “keep her family together.” “My career became less important at that moment. I just thought: if that goes well, it will be fine.”