Overview
- Thaler, a mainstay of ZDF’s Die Rosenheim-Cops for about 25 years, is recounting the private crisis in televised interviews and in her autobiography Strong Because I Had to Be Strong.
- She says her mother struggled with gambling and mental illness and that she, as a daughter, felt used, hurt, and repeatedly lied to.
- Thaler recounts learning via a letter that her mother had embezzled 193,000 Deutsche Mark from work, after which she signed a personal guarantee and, with her then‑husband, spent years repaying the debt.
- She says the repayments forced her to take as much filming as possible, describing a grind of “shoot, pay, shoot,” while keeping a bright public image and hiding a “double life.”
- Despite the repayments, she says her mother was later convicted after a failed attempt to extort a supermarket, and Thaler now defends telling the story as an act of care she says her mother wanted.