Singer Amor Vittone says vicious hate mail and claims that Joost was broke make her more determined not to give up
SHE’D just returned home after dropping the kids at school when the gardener handed her a registered letter the estate’s postman had delivered.
Unsuspectingly, Amor Vittone opened it thinking it might be a letter from a fan. It was any thing but.
Written in pencil and in Afrikaans, the letter began, “You’re a f*****g bitch, you’ve always been a f*****g bitch.”
It rambled on for 20 pages, saying such things as, “Joost didn’t deserve you, those Van der Westhuizens don’t deserve you,” Amor recalls.
The anonymous writer – who delivered the first letter in April then a second one last month – quickly got personal. “The hijacking. Sorry, but he should have hit you harder and not just the window,” the letter said, referring to the smash and grab incident Amor was involved in a while back.
“Pity he didn’t pull the trigger and re lieve us all of you. You’re talking s**t. You broke your car window yourself because you want attention.”
But what really got to Amor were the threats and insults directed at her children, Jordan (13) and Kylie (11).
“I don’t care if you take me on,” Amor says. “I can take it if you say I can’t sing or I’m ugly or I don’t know how to dress. I work in the entertainment industry, I have a thick skin. But if you tackle my parents, threaten my children . . . then I’m going to stuffyou up sixlove.”
IT’S Sunday afternoon and Amor is with the kids and her parents at the spacious, warm home she and Joost used to share in the Dainfern security estate in Johannesburg.
Her dad, Dario, is braaiing in the winter sun and her mom, Delyse, is set ting the table on the patio while the kids occupy themselves somewhere in the house.
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