Overview

• In newly reported podcast comments, the 55-year-old says no one made a mistake during her operation and describes the outcome as misfortune, adding she feels sorry for the professor whose last pre-retirement surgery was hers.
• The life-threatening aneurysm was discovered by chance when a head MRI was done ahead of planned laser eye surgery.
• The procedure on January 8, 2009, in Hamburg saw complications when the aneurysm ruptured, and she spent about four months in a coma.
• She underwent extensive rehabilitation to relearn speaking, walking and writing, ultimately returning to television and joining RTL Aktuell’s sports team in 2023.
• She says doctors told her the aneurysm likely existed from birth and she now considers her lack of children fortunate, believing childbirth could have caused a fatal rupture.