Overview
- In an interview on Robin Gosens' podcast, Lierhaus recounts how an aneurysm ruptured during surgery in January 2009, leading doctors to tell her family to say goodbye.
- She says she spent about four months in an artificial coma and woke with profound deficits, describing herself as unable to sit, stand, walk or swallow.
- Lierhaus underwent roughly eight months of rehabilitation at a clinic on Lake Constance, setting the goal to leave on her own feet and relearning speech and movement.
- She reports lasting impairments, especially a severely damaged sense of balance that prevents her from using stairs without a handrail and is not expected to recover.
- Describing stigma and paparazzi after rehab, she cites a 2011 Goldene Kamera appearance to reclaim control, remains active with RTL, and rejects blaming the surgeon, calling the outcome extremely rare.