Overview
- Tiedtke, who gave her first public interviews Tuesday to RTL and Bunte, described finding her son Max unresponsive in his bed about a year ago.
- Doctors later reported in the autopsy that Max had myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, which family and friends had not recognized through symptoms.
- She said the loss left her unable to function for weeks and away from work for about a year, during which she lived on savings and tried to rebuild a daily rhythm.
- Tiedtke voiced a personal belief that heavy late-night gaming and sleep loss stressed her son’s body, a view she shared without claiming medical proof beyond the autopsy.
- Max was the younger child of Tiedtke and former tennis pro Hendrik Dreekmann, born March 16, 2007, and his mother says she now leans on spiritual beliefs to cope and to help others feel less alone.