Gil Ofarim: “I had panic attacks”

Musician Gil Ofarim (42) stands in front of his comeback concert. The appearance entitled “Gil Ofarim – correction of the time 2025 – the first concert after years!” takes place on April 17th in the Matrix music club in Bochum. At least one new song will also be heard, because.

In the run -up to his return to the public, his manager advised him to interview him. The conversation with the “star” is “the most important interview of your life, Gil”, he is quoted. The two journalists also experience the musician excitedly. “I am very nervous,” he said at the greeting in his new home and on: “I’m afraid that I will make everything worse”. This relates the former pop star to the unprecedented crash after the Davidstern scandal, which took its course in 2021.

Gil Ofarim, who is Jewish faith, shared a video on social media in October 2021, in which he accused an employee of a Leipzig hotel to have behaved anti -Semitic to him. The man asked him to make his chain disappear with Davidstern so that he could check in. The video made large waves, Ofarim filed a complaint. However, the hotel employee vehemently denied the allegations and showed the musician for defamation.

In November 2023, the process occurred indirectly to invented the claims. “The allegations. Mr. W., I would like to apologize to you. I’m sorry. I deleted the video,” repeats the “star” the four sentences according to which the procedure was set. Ofarim was asked to pay 5,000 euros each to the Israelite religious community in Leipzig and the Haus der Wannsee conference in Berlin. After extending the deadline, he paid in August 2024.

In mid-November 2024, Gil Ofarim shared a video with a first statement on his Instagram account. After the incident, he took time for himself, but the matter was not “done with an apology or silence. I know that now”. He had dealt with his behavior for a long time and take his critics very seriously: “I take responsibility for what I did,” the singer clarified.

In the “Stern” interview, Ofarim becomes even clearer: “The video was the biggest mistake in my life,” he is quoted. And further: “I completely underestimated what the video would trigger.” He says: “I didn’t sleep anymore. I had panic attacks. So I drank every day.” During this time he increased 25 kilos, as he told in his Instagram clip. He also “looked for professional help”.

Private support during all the time, the native of Munich Gil Ofarim had with his girlfriend, with whom he now lives in an apartment of her parents in a small Swabian town. Via social media, they got to know each other as they told the “star”, they have been a couple since summer 2021 and have been engaged for several months.

It will be his second marriage. A son and a daughter who lives with her mother in Munich come from the marriage closed in 2014. Ofarim and Verena Brock separated headlines a few years after the wedding.

The musician also hopes for a comeback for his offspring. “I just want to be allowed to appear again so that I can afford an apartment in Munich with my children,” says Gil Ofarim. His manager is behind him: “The Gil says himself that he shouldn’t have uploaded the video. He paid bitterly for it. He deserves a chance.”