Overview
- In a five‑minute Instagram clip, the longtime cast member of VOX’s emigrant reality show Goodbye Deutschland thanks his wife and fans and says he might have taken his own life without her.
- He reports that doctors were stunned he can walk again and calls his survival a miracle he links to his wife’s push in rehab.
- He defends his wife after hate messages criticized her for urging him to climb stairs, walk and train during recovery.
- He rejects accusations that he draws German state benefits, saying he has never received a euro from the state and that he pays his own bills.
- Background: After a lung operation last year, he developed a severe fungal infection that caused a hole in his lung and required an induced coma and ventilation, with a brief readmission in February for a suspected stomach bleed before steady gains.