Overview
- Gesine shared the news on February 16, 2026, posting a rare family photo she called her favorite.
- The image shows Christel with Sandra and Gesine’s mother, Helga Meyer, in the Bavarian mountains.
- In her message, Gesine described Christel as the “rock of our family” who gave the sisters a “safe harbor.”
- Helga Meyer, a German opera singer who later settled in the United States, died in 2000 at age 58 from colon cancer.
- Coverage notes no cause of death or age for Christel, and places the loss alongside Sandra’s 2023 bereavement of partner Bryan Randall from ALS.