Here is more of what Joost had to say in the wide-ranging interview with Coenie de Villiers:
on when people now stop him in the street:
'All I can do is to look people in the eye and say I'm sorry.'
on how he felt when the story broke and he saw the video and knew it was him:
'Fear. Shock. Fear. From ''This can't be happening!'' You know you're going to lose your wife . . . you're going to lose your kids. This mess I've gotten myself into was my own fault, but it was three and a half years ago, not eight months ago - but now I can't tell people that. I drank a lot, I partied a lot. I told a lot of lies. You've conned a lot of people. You got involved with the wrong things like the drugs and then it comes back and bites you in the behind.'
on his wife Amor's interview on Kwêla a few months ago, defending him, when he haven't told her the truth yet:
'I have the utmost respect for my wife. When she sat here, she didn't know it was all lies.'
on Mike Bolhuis, the private investigator Joost hired to help him with the cover-up and is now making all kinds of allegations as well:
'I don't blame Mike Bolhuis. I went to Mike Bolhuis. Yes, we walked together. I'm not going to get entangled with Mike Bolhuis in the media. When I walk away here today, I close my chapter. There is nothing I can do at the past. There's a lot I can do in the future.'
on Charmaine Weavers (Gale), who just admitted to also having had an affair with Joost today:
'If I have to go back in my life . . . there's many things. The video was the thing that created the upheaval. If I now have to go back and apologize for every little thing I'm going to be sitting here for a very long time. If I deny it, they bring out a lot more girls. No matter what I say, it will be in the papers tomorrow.'
on Marilize van Emmenis, the girl in the sex video with him:
'No [I've never had contact with her again]. I'm asking people to forgive me. And I also have to forgive other people. Just like my situation they know they've made mistakes. Just as I was a bad guy, they were bad guys. I'm not angry. I should never have gotten myself into that situation in the first place. That's why I'm sitting here tonight - to rectify my situation.'
