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Heino Opens Up About Daughter’s Death in New RTL+ Documentary

The four-part series centers on his on-camera account of receiving the 2003 news while departing on a Mediterranean cruise.

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.