Betty Taube Recounts Abusive Childhood in RTL Interview as She Competes on Let's Dance

In a new RTL interview, the Let's Dance contestant calls her years in care her rescue, saying that experience still shapes how she lives.

Overview

Taube says she experienced emotional and physical violence while living with her alcohol-dependent single mother until about age eight.
She was placed in a children's home at roughly eight and a half and remained there until 19, a period she now describes as lifesaving and formative.
She says she has never drunk alcohol and that even the smell of wine brings back memories from childhood.
Her mother died when Taube was 18 during her Germany's Next Topmodel period, and she remembers her for having a big heart.
Taube draws motivation on Let's Dance from a motto her mother taught her and previously detailed her past in her October 2025 memoir, Sag, die blauen Flecke kommen vom Spielen.