Cellar coma girl wakes after seven weeks after being played Robbie Williams songs



Monster: Josef Fritzl fathered Kerstin with after locking up his daughter Elisabeth in his cellar 24 years ago.

Cellar victim Kerstin Fritzl woke from her two-month coma after being played Robbie Williams songs.

Kerstin was unconscious and critically ill with multiple organ failure when she was admitted to hospital on April 19.

The 19-year-old was placed on a life support machine and put in a medically-induced coma and has now been successfully revived, thanks to being played a series of hits by the pop star.

She is now on the mend and has a wish - to see the former Take That star in concert.



At a news conference in Amstetten, Austria, this morning doctors detailed how she has managed to make a complete recovery and has been reunited with her mother and siblings at a clinic.

Doctors confirmed there should be no major lasting damage.

Doctor Albert Reiter, who led the medical team, described the moment when she first opened her eyes as 'very emotional'.



He said: 'We smiled at her and she smiled back.'

"One night I had to order her to finally go to sleep at 3am as she kept listening to Robbie Williams CDs."

Now the teenager is said to be a good communicator and has made two requests - she wants to take a boat trip and she is desperate to see Williams in concert.

Doctors realised she was getting better when they saw her dancing in bed to a track.



Doctor Reiter added that her mother Elizabeth had played a huge part in her recovery by visiting her on a daily basis and helping to motivate her daughter by talking to her.

Within days the teenager had taken her first steps and on Sunday she was transferred to the clinic where her mother and five brothers and sisters are staying.

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Emotional: Dr Albert Reiter, who treated Kerstin Fritzl speaks during a news conference in Zeillern, Austria

It was the first time the 19 year-old had encountered her family outside the cramped dungeon where she has spent her entire life.



Doctors had set up the plan in advance knowing that Kerstin had only ever before seen her mother and two brothers, as well as her captor Fritzl, 73, who is in custody awaiting trial.

Medics feared Kerstin - born to Fritzl and his daughter Elisabeth during her 24-year incestuous captivity - would die when her organs stopped working. She was hooked up to a life support machine to keep her vital organs steady.

Last month there were unconfirmed reports she had showed flickers of life and at one point had opened her eyes as she began the slow process of emerging from the coma.

Kerstin initially became sick after biting her tongue. Blood got into her lungs and an infection began to spread through her body.

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Cellar prison: The cellar bathroom where Fritzl's dungeon prisoners were expected to wash

In a rare act of mercy, evil Josef Fritzl chose to release the teenager and take her to hospital after she collapsed in his underground lair.

Kerstin is one of the seven children Fritzl, an engineer and property developer, fathered with his own daughter Elisabeth, 42, whom he kept as his personal sex slave in a purpose-built dungeon beneath his home.

One of the children, a baby boy called Michael, died shortly after birth and Fritzl burned his body in an incinerator.

Fritzl selected three of the children, Lisa, 15, Monika, 14, and Alexander, 12, to live with him and his wife Rosemarie, 68, in their upstairs apartment in the town of Amstetten.

The other three children, Kerstin, Stefan, 18, and Felix, five, were forced to live in the damp cellar beneath with their mother, never seeing the light of day until police revealed the case on April 26.

Elisabeth's mother Rosemarie, 69, has also gathered strength after health problems sparked by revelations of her husband's vile dungeon in Amstetten, Austria.



The family recently symbolised Kerstin's presence by circling her name with a heart in a touching poster of personal messages.

Appeal: A poster bearing the Fritzls' hand-prints and a heart for Kerstin while she lay ill in hospital



When the teenager fell ill, doctors sent out a national TV appeal to find her mother, who, Fritzl claimed, had run off to a sect.

Unsuspecting Rosemarie was away on holiday in Italy at the time but rushed home to support the children.

The family are expected to stay in their clinic for several months while they adapt to the real world.