Robert Enke left a message on his daughter’s grave before taking his own life: “Lara, dad is coming”

When 17 years have passed since the tragic death of the former German international goalkeeper Robert Enkewho took his own life at the age of 32, his widow, Teresa Enke, has explained in the last few hours, in an interview on ‘Wie Geht’s’, things that she had not explained until now. And they are really hard and moving.

In the aforementioned podcast, owned by elite footballer Robin Goosens, which deals specifically with mental illness, Teresa revealed that the former Barça player left a card on the grave of the little daughter they both lost. She says that, on the way home to take her own life, Enke passed by the cemetery and placed a heart-shaped card on her daughter’s grave. On the card he had written: “Lara, dad is coming.”

Teresa claims that it was definitive proof that Robert never got over his daughter’s death and that perhaps they should have acted differently after that tragedy. “We didn’t seek help. We just cried together. I think he didn’t grieve the way he should have.”

He also tells what their last night together was like. She explains that they were sitting on the couch when Robert suddenly hugged her, kissed her, and told her he loved her. Teresa took this as a sign that he was improving after several difficult years. The couple’s daughter, who was born with congenital heart disease, had died at just two years old three years earlier.