Nadja Abd el Farrag (5 March 1965 – 9 May 2025), nicknamed Naddel, was a German television and media personality. She became known through her relationship with songwriter and record producer

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Early life

Abd el Farrag was born in

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to a Sudanese father, Ibrahim, and a German mother, Uta. She described her father as very strict and was estranged from him for the last 15 years before his death. She had a younger sister. Abd el Farrag left school a year before the ''

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'' and later did an apprenticeship as a chemist's assistant and worked in a shop.

Career

In 1989, Abd el Farrag met

in Hamburg and became a background vocalist for his project

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. During that time, she briefly had a part-time job in a hospice. Abd el Farrag and Bohlen were in a relationship from 1989 to 1996 and from 1997 to 2001. In 1999, she did two photoshoots for the magazine '' Playboy Germany''. From 1999 to 2000, she presented the

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erotic-show ''Peep!'' In 2002, Abd el Farrag published a cookbook, which was followed by her autobiography ''Ungelogen'' in 2003. ''Ungelogen'' details her youth and her relationship with Bohlen, and also contains controversial statements about her former manager Gerd Graf Bernadotte, who sued her to have some passages removed. In 2004, she took part in the second season of '' Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!'', the German version of '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' In 2005, she was a guest on '' Big Brother Germany'' for a week. In 2006, she released the single "Blinder Passagier" with Austrian schlager singer , which was followed by their collaborative album ''Weiße Pferde'' in 2007. That same year, they took part in the preselection for the Grand Prix der Volksmusik with the song "Heimat". From 2007 to 2017, her stage-name Naddel was a registered trademark. In 2008, Abd el Farrag also worked as a DJ. In 2009, she advertised for the German erotic company Orion and for the erotic fair

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. In 2013, she participated in ''Promiboxen'' on Sat.1. In 2016 and 2018, she took part in the RTL show ''Raus aus den Schulden'', presented by debt counselor . Also in 2018, she published her second autobiography ''Achterbahn''. Her last public appearance was at on 25 May 2024, after which she retired from the limelight "despite several offers".

Personal life and death

Abd el Farrag and Bohlen had a tumultuous relationship, which she once described as "the mistake of my life". Following their final breakup, media coverage of Abd el Farrag often focussed on her health and financial issues, particularly her alcohol consumption. She was diagnosed with

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(ADHD) as an adult, and she told the German edition of '' Closer'' in 2017 that she had

liver cirrhosis Cirrhosis, also known as liver cirrhosis or hepatic cirrhosis, chronic liver failure or chronic hepatic failure and end-stage liver disease, is a chronic condition of the liver in which the normal functioning tissue, or parenchyma, is replaced ...

. On 9 May 2025, she died in Hamburg at the age of 60 due to multiple organ failure.

Bibliography

* ''Naddel kocht verführerisch gut'', Südwest, Munich 2001, * ''Ungelogen - (K)eine Liebesgeschichte'', Herbig, Munich 2003, * Nadja Abd el Farrag, Sybille F. Martin: ''Achterbahn. Eine Biographie'', Obermayer, Buchloe 2018,

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