In a pretty one-sided interview with a celebrity glossy from her home country, the young American mom convicted of participating in her own mother’s death in the ‘Bali Suitcase Murder’, told all about their “complicated” relationship.
“She never wanted to be separated from me and yet she also hated everything about me,” Heather Mack told People Magazine from her cell in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison.
Mack is serving a 10-year sentence, while her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer is serving 18-years, for Sheila von Wiese-Mack’s death.
Mack apparently repeatedly insisted during her interview that she did not actually kill her mother, but did describe a tense relationship between them after her father died in 2006.
Tense, but close in a weird way, according to Mack’s account: ”I had a nice room, but if I ever tried to sleep in it, she couldn’t take it and she wouldn’t sleep,” Mack said. “So I slept with her.”
“There was a lot of good in our relationship. I don’t know if I would describe us as friends, but we were close.”
And one way they were close was from bonding over shoplifting, Mack claims.
In addition to petty theft, Mack also told People of how she had been committed to a number of juvies and psych wards, but her mother who she alleges had a drinking problem, couldn’t bear to be away from her.
“I tried to move out of the house multiple times because I couldn’t take it anymore,” she claims. “And every time I would try to leave, she would call me and send me pictures of herself trying to kill herself, saying, ‘If you don’t come back right now you’re not ever going to see me ever again.’ So I’d always go back.”
When asked about her mother’s death, Mack insisted that it wasn’t premeditated. “In the media they say we had it [Sheila’s killing] all planned out, but that’s not what happened.
”She attacked Tommy, he hit her. That’s all he did. I saw it.”
Why on earth would the 62-year-old attack Schaefer? The young couple claimed that von Wiese-Mack became furious when she learned her daughter was pregnant with Schaefer’s baby and tried to strangle to Schaefer, but Schaefer testified he defended himself by hitting her with the steel-handle of a fruit bowl.
“But things are more confusing now than when she was alive,” Mack said. “I wish I’d found some way to get her help. And to get me help.”
But really? Is anyone buying this? We’re looking forward to what the US federal investigation will reveal, as it was reported earlier this month that American authorities continued their investigation beyond Schaefer and Mack’s convictions as Schaefer’s cousin was arrested for allegedly helping conspire with von Wiese-Mack’s murder plot.
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