Overview
- The documentary, HEINO – Karamba, Karacho, Kult, premiered March 13 on RTL+ and is slated to air on VOX starting March 31.
- Heino recounts learning aboard the Costa Victoria that his daughter Petra, 35, had died by suicide, a moment he calls the worst of his life.
- He remained on the ship and returned to the stage five days later, saying he believed Petra would have wanted him to sing.
- Petra had long struggled with severe psychosis marked by delusions and hallucinations, and her mother had died by suicide in 1988.
- Heino says he learned of his paternity years after Petra’s birth and brought her into his household after her mother’s death.