Early Life
Michel was born on 22 September 1952 in Leiblfing, Bavaria, West Germany to a strict Catholic family. When she was sixteen, she suffered a severe convulsion and was diagnosed as having epilepsy. Soon, she began while praying. In 1973, she suffered from depression and began to hear voices telling her that she was “damned” and would "rot in hell".
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