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Before she died, teacher Mary Kay Letourneau felt remorse for her relationship with her 12-year-old student

Teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, which was prosecuted and convicted in USA For raping a 12-year-old student whom she later married and had two daughters, she regretted that relationship before her death from colon cancer in 2020 at age 58, according to a report.

Mary Kay Letourneau She felt “deep regret” and tried to make peace with herself and with others in the last days of her life. People magazine reported .

“The bottom line was that she understood on a very deep level that she had really ruined her life and the lives of many people in 1996. She realized that although things turned out relatively well, she was responsible for a wide swath of destruction for her actions. He apologized to a lot of people for a lot of things, “a friend of Mary’s whom she had known for 20 years told People.

“At the end of your life, you start to re-evaluate a lot of things, and she was trying to make peace, not only with others but With Herself”, added.

“He told me he wrote a lot of letters,” insisted the source. “He was getting close to 30 of them.”

The friend does not know if Letourneau wrote a letter to her husband, Drill Drugs.

The history

La maestra Mary Kay Letourneau went to prison in 1998 accused of sexually abusing her sixth grader named Drill Drugs. That year she was 36 and he was 13. Over time, they got married.

It all started in 1996, in Seattle, when Mary Kay Letourneau he was 34 years old. At that time, she was married with four children, one of them her student’s age. Drill Drugs. That same year it was denounced by the minor’s parents, who noticed the rapprochement between the two. He received a restraining order that he did not comply with.

Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau tied the knot in a secret ceremony in May 2005. (Photo: AP Photo / Courtesy of Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, Mark Greenberg, File).

In 1998, the police found Mary Kay Letourneau next to Vili Fualaau inside a car. It was 3 in the morning and she was arrested. She was prosecuted and, finally, she was sentenced to 7 years in prison after being accused of raping the minor.

Two daughters

While Mary Kay Letourneau was being prosecuted, she gave birth to Audrey, the first daughter she had with Drill Drugs. Already in prison, she became pregnant again. Georgia, the second daughter, was born while serving her sentence.

The husband of Mary Kay Letourneau He went to Alaska with his four children after asking for a divorce.

Mary Kay Letourneau holds one of her daughters.  (Photo: Betty Udesen / The Seattle Times via AP, File).

The sentence ended in August 2004, when Drill Drugs He was already of legal age and asked the court for authorization so that they can see each other. This is how the restraining order was withdrawn, but Mary Kay Letourneau She was registered as a sex offender in Washington.

Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau during a photoshoot at their beachfront home on April 27, 2006 in Normandy Park, Washington.  (AFP PHOTO GETTY IMAGES / RON WURZER).

Divorce and death

Mary and Vili were married in a secret ceremony in May 2005 and separated in 2017. That year, Drill Drugs He filed a lawsuit for separation where he mainly demanded a fair divorce in reference to the common property.

The divorce became effective at the end of 2019. They both took care of their daughters Audrey and Georgia, both of whom are now of legal age.

Mary Kay Letourneau y su familia. (Foto: RON WURZER / Getty Images North America / AFP).

Mary Kay Letourneau died of cancer in 2020, when he was 58 years old.

In the last moments of her life, she was accompanied by her family, including her ex-boyfriend Vili Fualaau. CNN indicates that he also took care of her for the past month.

Vili Fualaau always defended their relationship. Even in a 2018 documentary he claimed that “at the end of the day, it was a true love story.”

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