The teenager, who could face the death penalty in Iraq, added: “I don’t know where I got the dumb idea to join Islamic State.”
Linda, 17, was speaking to the German TV programme Tagesschau for the first time since she was found in the rubble of IS stronghold Mosul back in the summer.
German diplomats are hopeful she will be spared the death penalty for joining Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
Charges were laid against her and three other German women captured in the Isis stronghold of Mosul in July.
German officials admitted that Iraq is threatening a “protracted criminal procedure” in Baghdad.
Schoolgirl Linda fled to Turkey then into Syria last year from her hometown of Pulsnitz in eastern Germany after being groomed online by a Chechen IS fighter who she married.
He was killed in the savage fighting for Mosul while she was employed by the terror group enforcing the strict Islamic dress code on women in the city.
She burst into tears after her capture and said she just wanted to come home.
She was filmed with her mother Katharine, 48, in Baghdad. She said she never fought for the terror group, lived in a variety of houses in Mosul and, after the death of her husband, “barely left the house.”