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Joran van der Sloot and Chris Cuomo (interviewer)
Interviewer: You’re sitting here. There’s lots
of scrutiny about what happened that night. Even though you’re no longer in jail,
you’re still suspect. Why do you come forward and try to tell this story?
Joran van der
Sloot: This
has been a lot for me and my family and for
Interviewer: Why should you be believed
after all the lying that you’ve done in this situation?
Joran van der Sloot: There’s absolutely no reason
to believe me.
Interviewer: Would you believe you?
Joran van der Sloot: I would probably not believe
myself, no.
Interviewer: And yet it’s important for
you to say it, why?
Joran van der Sloot: Because it’s the truth. It’s
time to tell the truth.
Interviewer: Are you ready to tell the
truth?
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah
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paraphrased:
(this is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The
interviewer says, "Joran van der Sloot says the truth of that night
begins in a casino with Joran playing blackjack." Next, the text
goes back to the actual interview: |
Joran van der Sloot: I sat down there and then
within five minutes, there was a group of girls from
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paraphrased:
(this is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The
interviewer says, "Joran says this is the first time he sets eyes on
Natalee Holloway." Next, the text goes back to the actual
interview: |
Interviewer: Did she seem interested in
you at the casino?
Joran van der Sloot: No.
Interviewer: So she really wasn’t –
Natalee really wasn’t in the equation for you at that time?
Joran van der Sloot: No, not at all.
Joran van der Sloot: I’ll tell you the truth. Even
when her – when the real moment that I started paying attention to her, is when
I met her in Carlos ‘N Charlie’s.
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paraphrased:
(this is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The
interviewer says, "Joran says they ask him to join them. So he says
he calls a few friends to see if they want to go out." Next, the
text goes back to the actual interview: |
Joran van der Sloot: I got to Carlos’N Charlie’s
and Deepak parked his car behind Carlos ‘N Charlie’s. We walked into the club.
It was already late. It was
Joran van der Sloot: And I was like – I was like,
no, I can’t. So I was talking to my friends. She was like, come on, we’ll go
take a jelly shot. So she took me by the hand and she took me to the bar. And
she jumped on the bar and laid down and told the bartender to, to give me a
jelly shot to put in her belly button and take a jelly shot off her.
Interviewer: That’s a jelly shot? Take the
jell-o or jelly, put it on somebody and then suck it up off of them?
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah.
Interviewer: Natalee was coming up to you?
Natalee was asking you for things? You were not courting her, you were not
pursuing her?
Joran van der Sloot: Not at all. Not at any point.
Joran van der Sloot: So we went to the other bar
on the opposite side, and I’m like, ‘what do you want?” and she’s like, well,
what shot do you suggest?” And I told her Bacardi 151.
Interviewer: Why?
Joran van der Sloot: Because that’s a shot I
always take when I go out.
Interviewer: When you say you got drinks
for Natalee, were you trying to get Natalee drunk?
Joran van der Sloot: No, not at all. I wasn’t
planning to get her drunk at all.
Interviewer: Did you see her as a drunk
and vulnerable Natalee that you could get over on?
Joran van der Sloot: No, I saw her as someone that
was trying to have fun. She had a lot of drinks.
Interviewer: Are you drunk?
Joran van der Sloot: No.
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paraphrased:
(this is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The
interviewer says, "Joran says it is Natalee's idea to keep the night
going. She gets into a car with him, his friend Deepak, and Deepak's brother,
18 year old Satish. Driving out, they pass Natalee's friends, who don't
seem happy." Next, the text goes back to the actual interview: |
Joran van der Sloot: There was this guy there. I
don’t know who he was. But he screamed to Natalee, ‘get out of the car now.”
Interviewer: And how did you take that?
Joran van der Sloot: Oh, I took that fine. We were
standing still and Deepak & Deepak told her, ‘if you want, go ahead and get
out of the car.” and she’s like, ‘no, I want to stay with you guys.”
Interviewer: Any thought come to you to
say, ‘her friends don’t want her here, maybe she should go”? She is
drunk.
Joran van der Sloot: Oh, well, I talked to her
friends, too. And she told her friends that she was coming with me, so I mean,
I thought everything was fine.
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(this is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The
interviewer says, "Joran says he and Natalee start kissing in the
back seat of Deepak's car." Next, the text goes back to the
actual interview: |
Interviewer: Do you remember who initiated
the kissing?
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah, I did.
Interviewer: Did you ever say that she was
the one who started kissing you?
Joran van der Sloot: I don’t know. Maybe I said a lot
of things.
Interviewer: Where were you planning on
going?
Joran van der Sloot: We were planning on going to
my house, because she said she wanted to go to my house.
Interviewer: And what was your intention
in taking her to your house?
Joran van der Sloot: My intention in taking her to
the house were, yeah, to have sex with her.
Interviewer: Unusual for you to be in the
back seat of the car with two other guys kind of driving you when you’re with
another girl?
Joran van der Sloot: With one other girl, yes.
Interviewer: But they were okay with it?
Joran van der Sloot: They were okay with it.
Interviewer: Did they ever say, ‘hey she
doesn’t seem right to us, let’s just drop her off”?
Joran van der Sloot: No, never.
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paraphrased:
(this is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The
interviewer says, "Then Joran decides not to take Natalee to his
house, because he says, his father and brother are sleeping. Then he says
Natalee has an idea to go to the lighthouse on the north coast to see
sharks." Next, the text goes back to the actual interview: |
Interviewer: You say Natalee said she
wanted to see sharks.
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah.
Interviewer: Lots of sharks around
Joran van der Sloot: No, no. No sharks at all.
Interviewer: But she thought she wanted to
see sharks?
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah. And I – I don’t know. I
told her there’s no sharks on
I was talking to her the whole
time. And so she was basically telling me stuff about
her life.
Interviewer: Such as?
Joran van der Sloot: That – where she’s from,
where she went to school, how old she was.
Interviewer: Still with it, still making
sense?
Joran van der Sloot: Still making sense. The only
thing she said that didn’t make
sense was about wanting to see
sharks. And she told me, she was talking about her mom, and she told me her mom
was Hitler’s sister.
Interviewer: What does that mean?
Joran van der Sloot: I have no clue what that
means, and I don’t know what it
means and . . .
Interviewer: Was it part of a
conversation, or was it . . .
Joran van der Sloot: No, it was a, it came up. I
don’t remember how it came up.
She said it. And it’s been
actually – one of her friends has actually told the police as
well that while they were
together, she told her the same thing.
Interviewer: How did you take it?
Joran van der Sloot: I took it strangely. I mean,
why would you say something like that? And I thought she was joking, so I was
laughing. But she told me she was serious.
Interviewer: You keep driving, you get to
the lighthouse.
Joran van der Sloot: No, we never went to the
lighthouse.
Interviewer: So then, where did the plan
change?
Joran van der Sloot: So then I asked her, ‘do you
want to go to your hotel?”
And she said, ‘no, no, no, I
don’t want to go to the hotel.’ So then I was thinking,
okay, so where do I take her?
So then we went to the beach right next to her hotel.
Interviewer: So what happens?
Joran van der Sloot: We drove to the – to that
beach there. We got out. And I told, I told Deepak I’d call him later to come
pick me up because I was planning on walking from that piece of the beach back
to her hotel. And that maybe on, on the beach walk there something would happen
between us. We walked out on the beach.
Interviewer: How is she walking?
Does she still seem okay to you?
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah, she seemed okay.
Interviewer: Were there other people on
the beach?
Joran van der Sloot: Yes, there were. There were a
lot of couples on beach. We walked- first I took off my shoes because I got
sand in them. We walked right up to the water. And first we sat down there
awhile, talking and kissing. And then I asked her if she wanted to go back to
her hotel. She said no, she wanted to walk the other way. So – towards the
north side of the island. And during that walk there was one other couple that
walked by. And so we walked awhile till we got about right to the fisherman’s
huts, and we sat down again in the sand. And we kissed, we made out. And –
yeah.
Interviewer: It matters what you did,
because it goes to how that story changed.
Joran van der Sloot: Mm-hmm
Interviewer: I know it is not the most
comfortable thing in the world, but nothing about this situation is. So what
happened as you remember?
Joran van der Sloot: As I remember it, she was
laying on top of me kissing and we were touching each other. And I ended up –
she put her hands in my pants, and I put my hands in her pants and – yeah,
that’s as far as it went.
Interviewer: No sex?
Joran van der Sloot: No sex.
Interviewer: No intercourse.
Joran van der Sloot: No intercourse.
Interviewer: Why not, if that’s what you
thought she wanted?
Joran van der Sloot: Well, I asked her if she
wanted to have sex and she was fine with it. I didn’t have a condom with me,
though in my wallet. And I – I won’t have sex with a girl without a condom.
Interviewer: How do you feel about Natalee
at this point?
Joran van der Sloot: Well at this point, I got to
know her a little and I thought she was attractive. I thought she – from most
of what I knew, I thought she was nice.
Interviewer: Did you feel that you two had
a connection, or was this just a mutual hookup for the moment?
Joran van der Sloot: It was just a mutual hookup
for the moment.
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interviewer says, "He says the two stayed on the beach for a while,
but it was getting very late. And Joran says he decided to go home because he
had school the next day." Next, the text goes back to
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Joran van der Sloot: We cuddled a while on the
beach, just laying there. And so I said about time to walk her back to her
hotel.
Interviewer: What does Natalee say?
Joran van der Sloot: She said she didn’t want to
go back to her hotel, and she wanted me to stay there with her because it was
her last night and she didn’t want to go back to
Interviewer: Was she falling asleep?
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah, she actually was when we
were laying there, she closed her eyes on my chest and – yeah.
Interviewer: Sleepy or drunk and passing
out?
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah, no more sleepy.
Interviewer: Seems a little odd, though
doesn’t it, that she’s falling asleep but she doesn’t want to go back to her
hotel?
Joran van der Sloot: She wanted me to stay with
her there. She didn’t want to go back to
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Joran van der Sloot: I tried to convince her to go
back to her hotel. I even jokingly picked her up in my arms to try and, and
take her to the hotel. And she said, just put me down.
Interviewer: Do you remember the last time
you saw her?
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah, the last time I saw her
was when I told her I was going to go to Deepak’s car.
Interviewer: And how was Natalee?
Joran van der Sloot: And she was sitting in the. .
. on the sand by the ocean.
Interviewer: Did it seem like a wrong
thing to do, leaving a girl on the beach like that?
Joran van der Sloot: At that moment in time, for
me it wasn’t the wrong thing. But it’s definitely the wrong thing to do. I
mean, it’s not something a real man would do. It’s not normal. It’s the not
right at all.
Interviewer: But you did it.
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah.
Interviewer: Why?
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah, because at that moment,
I wanted to go home. I wanted to go to school the next day.
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is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The interviewer
says, "Joran says Deepak's brother, Satish, picked him up and drove
him home. He says he left without his shoes." Next, the
text goes back to the actual interview: |
Interviewer: Why shouldn’t the fact that
you left your shoes be seen as a sign of panic that you were nervous or scared
about what had happened there?
Joran van der Sloot: Because that’s not what
happened.
Interviewer: Why would you forget your
shoes? You said you weren’t drunk.
Joran van der Sloot: I’d left them on the beach.
I’d walked to the car. We got in the car. And right then and there, I couldn’t
go back because we were going home.
Following is out of sequence
from previous exchange, but in the order as broadcast on primetime:
Joran van der Sloot: She screamed at me, ‘tell me
where my daughter is.”
Interviewer: Why not just tell her the
truth? Why didn’t you?
Interviewer: When you heard that a girl had
gone missing on the beach, what did you think?
Joran van der Sloot: Well, the first thing that
popped into my head was (censored). What if something happened to her? What if
she went swimming? I was thinking after everything she told me, she probably
might have gone back to her hotel, hooked up with – gone to someone else,
hooked up with someone else, and wanted to stay another day on the island.
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interviewer says, "And remember the comment about Hitler? Joran says
it made him wonder if Natalee may have run away from home." Next,
the text goes back to the actual interview: |
Interviewer: Why didn’t it occur to you
guys to then, "Let’s go tell everything we know, seeing how we have
nothing to hide”? Why wasn’t that the reaction?
Joran van der Sloot: That’s what should have been
the reaction. But I guess we decided that – I also decided that I didn’t want
anyone to know that that happened.
Interviewer: What was your first
impression of Natalee’s mother?
Joran van der Sloot: I walked up to her and she
was holding the picture. And all she said to me, she screamed at me was, ‘tell
me where my daughter is.”?
Interviewer: And did you?
Joran van der Sloot: I told her I don’t know.
Interviewer: People don’t lie when they
have nothing to hide in general. Do you understand that?
Joran van der Sloot: Mm-hmm.
Interviewer: Why would you lie if you had nothing
to hide about Natalee Holloway?
Joran van der Sloot: I lied because, yeah, I was
scared. I had a girlfriend at the time. I didn’t want my dad to think bad of
me. I didn’t want my friends to think bad of me.
Interviewer: Why not just tell them the
truth? Why didn’t you?
Joran van der Sloot: I didn’t want anyone to know.
I didn’t want anyone to know I left her at the beach.
Interviewer:
Joran van der Sloot: There wasn’t actually a lot
of thought in it at all. It was basically making it up as come along. Actually
just saying that – that only thing we were gonna say was we dropped her off at
the hotel. And then, when her family showed up, they’re like, ‘okay, well, then
let’s go to the hotel.” We went to the hotel and then Deepak made up a story
that there was a security guard there that walked up to her and took her by the
hand and took her in & took her inside and that she fell out of the car and
. . .
Interviewer: Yeah, what’s that
about? You told police that Natalee fell out of the car when she got out
to go. Why did you tell them that?
Joran van der Sloot: For no specific reason, just
as a detail, like you just said.
Interviewer: Was there a little bit of
truth in it? Was Natalee more drunk than you’re letting on?
Joran van der Sloot: No, not at all.
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interviewer says, "Joran now says he might have told what he calls
the real story, the one he's telling you tonight, then and there if the
family hadn't been so aggressive when they met that first night." Next,
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Joran van der Sloot: They show up at our house
screaming, cussing, I mean, the way they were putting pressure on us just made
us probably made us want to lie more because we seemed like we were in big
trouble.
Interviewer: Even though they may have been
hostile toward you, they were searching for a girl who hasn’t been found.
Joran van der Sloot: They were searching for a
girl that wasn’t found, but . . .
Interviewer: And you lied to them about
it.
Joran van der Sloot: And I lied to them about it,
but the – how they acted towards my family and, and my friends is not a normal
way that normal parents would go about if their daughter was missing.
Interviewer: And your friends Deepak and
Satish decided to go along with this and make up a story about a missing girl?
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah
Interviewer: Nobody had a sense of right
and wrong at that time among you there?
Joran van der Sloot: No
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did not have a lead-in question:
Joran van der Sloot: Deepak and Satish came to my
house about every day, and we talked, and we talked. And we tried to – we
discussed things and we’re like – we also at that time said, maybe, you know,
it’s time to go to the police and tell them exactly what happened.
Interviewer: Did you kill Natalee
Holloway?
Joran van der Sloot: No.
Interviewer: Did you harm Natalee
Holloway?
Joran van der Sloot: No.
Interviewer: Did you help someone else who
harmed Natalee Holloway?
Joran van der Sloot: No.
Interviewer: Did you see Natalee Holloway
in distress?
Joran van der Sloot: No.
Interviewer: Are you sure about all those
answers?
Joran van der Sloot: Yes.
Interviewer: Do you know how much those
answers mean to her family and to a lot of other people?
Joran van der Sloot: A lot.
Interviewer: The only thing you three
really agree on 100% is that you were the last person to be with Natalee.
Joran van der Sloot: Yes.
Interviewer: Doesn’t put you in a good
position.
Joran van der Sloot: No, it doesn't.
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Interviewer: What would you say to Natalee if
you were still able to speak to her?
Joran van der Sloot: If I were to see her, if I .
. . if she were to be found tomorrow, I think I ‘d hate her. I’d hate
her.
Interviewer: Hate her?
Joran van der Sloot: Yes, I’d hate her.
Interviewer: Innocent people usually don’t
sit around when people are looking for a young woman who’s missing and think up
how to lie about it.
Joran van der Sloot: Well, at one point, I was – I
thought I was way too – too deep into it, and it was too late to go forward and
tell the truth because then you would look bad. You would look guilty. So now
at this point, we have to stick with the story. If not, they’re gonna think we
had something to do with this.
Interviewer: Was it difficult for you to
look at the police officer, to face up to the situation that a girl was missing
and probably dead and lie about it?
Joran van der Sloot: It was – of course, it’s –
it’s – it’s difficult. I mean, I – I lied to the police. And I – I think when I
lied to them, I think they believed us. I mean, I believe the Aruban police
believed us the first time we told them that we’d dropped the girl off. I
really think they believed us.
Joran van der Sloot: I got arrested the morning of
my graduation, and that’s something you’ll never forget.
Interviewer: How did you explain it to
yourself?
Joran van der Sloot: Well, there’s – there’s
always mixed emotions. Of course, you’re angry. You want to go home. But in the
end you have to look at yourself and just say, it’s your own fault.
Interviewer: Did you feel fear?
Joran van der Sloot: I think the one emotion I did
not feel is fear.
Interviewer: Why not?
Joran van der Sloot: Because for me there was
nothing to be scared of.
Joran van der Sloot: When I heard my father was
arrested, I almost went – I almost went crazy. I mean, I was – I was like, how
can they do this?
Interviewer: Why after the first lie and
you saw that the girl wasn’t being found, why didn’t you tell the truth?
Joran van der Sloot: Well during all those police
interrogations, they try and – they try and do everything to you to make you –
make you look guilty, to make you say stuff that you don’t want to say.
Sometimes from
Interviewer: They hit you.
Joran van der Sloot: They hit me.
Interviewer: How?
Joran van der Sloot: This one cop probably – he
really was always – he didn’t like me. And he started walking circles around
me, and he started saying, (censored) your mom, (censored) your dad, (censored)
your lawyer. Now you’re it now you’re going to tell me the truth. And then I
ended up saying, (censored) you to him. And he hit me from the back. He hit me
off my chair.
Interviewer: Hit you how?
Joran van der Sloot: Hit me with an open hand
across the head.
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actual question to Joran. The interviewer off camera in a voice over says, "Joran
first told Police his friend Deepak drove him. Then said it was Deepak's
brother, Satish." Next, the text goes back to the
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Interviewer: Why would you do that?
Joran van der Sloot: From the beginning, I talked
to Deepak and we’d agreed that he’d keep his brother out of this.
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hear the actual question to Joran. The interviewer off camera in a voice over
says, "But, according to police documents, the brothers say neither
of them drove Joran home. Joran says now they are lying." Next,
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Interviewer: Why would they lie?
Joran van der Sloot: I don’t know. Well the thing
that – the only explanation I can give for that is at that point, if they would
have said that they picked me up, that all the – all – everything goes towards
them. Because then that would mean that they dropped me off at my house and I
went to sleep. And then they had a car, and they could easily done anything
they wanted.
Interviewer: Do you think there’s a chance
that one of your friends went to that beach where she was and did something to
hurt Natalee?
Joran van der Sloot: I can’t answer that question.
The thing that just keeps me – that does make me think they know something more
about it is that they won’t tell they truth about Satish picking me up.
Interviewer: The only thing you three
really agree on 100% is that you were the last person to be with Natalee.
Joran van der Sloot: Yes.
Interviewer: Doesn’t put you in a good
position.
Joran van der Sloot: No, it doesn’t.
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Joran van der Sloot: I wanted to cry. I wanted to
lay in a corner and not – you know, sometimes in there you feel like just, you
know, who cares? I might as well say I did it because there’s no use anyway
anymore. Nobody’s going to believe me anyway. I might as well get everybody out
of trouble.
Interviewer: Do you think you did anything
wrong that night?
Joran van der Sloot: Yes.
Interviewer: What is your responsibility
as you see it?
Joran van der Sloot: I think what I did wrong is
leaving her there at the beach. I should have brought her back to her hotel or
I should have made sure I left her with someone, one of her friends. But I just
should have gotten her back to where she should have been.
Interviewer: Does it eat at you that all a
long that the police were trying to figure out the lies that you were telling
and your friend was telling, they could have been searching for Natalee? That,
if you hadn’t left her there, maybe this wouldn’t have happened. Does that eat
at you?
Joran van der Sloot: Well, of course, it eats at
me every day that if I would have just not left her there at the beach in the
first place that all of this might not have
happened.
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get is an off camera statement to introduce the next part of the interview.)
We don't actually know exactly what Joran is responding to, because we don't
hear the actual question to Joran. The interviewer off camera in a voice over
says, "When Primetime continues, a greeting on American
shores." Next, the text goes back to the actual
interview: |
Joran van der Sloot: Instead of saying (censored),
or welcome to
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Next, the interview has been
snipped: (What we
get is are statements to introduce the next part of the interview.) We don't
actually know exactly what Joran is responding to, because we don't hear the
actual question to Joran. An announcer says, "He was slapped with a
lawsuit in |
Joran van der Sloot: Started screaming, here, take
this. It’s official. Started saying, (censored), welcome to
Tell us where her body is.
Interviewer: Do you think you deserve this
type of treatment?
Joran van der Sloot: I don’t think I deserve this
type of treatment, no.
Interviewer: What do you make of their
lawsuit?
Joran van der Sloot: I think their lawsuit is
ridiculous.
Interviewer: In the lawsuit, it suggests
that your parents knew that you were basically a sexual predator. Do you accept
that?
Joran van der Sloot: I’m not a sexual predator,
and my parents don’t know what I do when I go out.
Interviewer: The lawsuit says your father
knew that you and your friends were coming up with a story and that he helped
you do that. Is that true?
Joran van der Sloot: No, that’s not true at all.
Interviewer: Did he know that you all were
planning on lying?
Joran van der Sloot: No.
Interviewer: Did he know at any point that
the Holiday Inn story wasn’t true?
Joran van der Sloot: No.
Interviewer: You don’t think your father
ever knew that the Holiday Inn story was false before . . .
Joran van der Sloot: I don’t think. I know.
Interviewer: You know.
Joran van der Sloot: Yeah.
Interviewer: What do you make of the
allegations that have come up about other girls in your past who allege that
you tried to get over on them with date-rape-drugs?
Joran van der Sloot: That’s ridiculous, and
there’s not one girl that has ever come forward or said anything like that. And
there’s not one girl that will ever come forward and say anything like that,
because it’s just not true.
Interviewer: Have you ever given a girl a
drug?
Joran van der Sloot: No, never.
Interviewer: Have you ever gotten a girl
drunk so that you could then make advances on them?
Joran van der Sloot: No, never.
Interviewer: The lawsuit says ‘kept
against her will, Natalee was sexually assaulted, fondled, touched without her
consent by you and your accomplices, over and over again as she drifted in and
out of consciousness.” Is that what happened?
Joran van der Sloot: No, that’s not true at all.
Interviewer: What happened?
Joran van der Sloot: Everything we did was
consensual.
Interviewer: They’ve even lobbied their
Alabama Governor to call for a boycott of the island, something that has turned
many in
Joran van der Sloot: That they would go and
boycott
Interviewer: You realize how frustrating
it is for the family because they believe you’re the one who knows?
Joran van der Sloot: And I believe it’s very
frustrating for them.
Interviewer: If this were your sister and
the last person that, she was with lied immediately, came up with a cover
story, changed it multiple times to the police, blamed other people, did
everything they could to distance themselves from it, how would you feel about
that person?
Joran van der Sloot: I’d think that person was
guilty. I know it doesn’t look good for me, but it’s just important for
everyone to know the truth and for me to be able to go on with my life.
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Next, Joran is quoted or perhaps
paraphrased:
(this is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The
interviewer says, "Van der Sloot says he had a scholarship to go to
school in |
Joran van der Sloot: I have awesome friends here.
And I have awesome friends in
Interviewer: So you tell me who are you?
Joran van der Sloot: I’m a normal teenager. I like
playing sports. I go to college. I hang out with friends. I’m just a normal
teenager.
Joran van der Sloot: Sometimes I feel like I
definitely need help dealing with my emotions. But on one side, I’m someone
that likes to not show their emotions.
Interviewer: And when they come out, what
are you?
Joran van der Sloot: They’re all built up and
you’re in your bed all day crying. It’s not easy to be happy with – with stuff
like this happening.
Interviewer: How often are days like that?
Joran van der Sloot: Too often.
Interviewer: What would you say to Natalee
if you were still able to speak to her?
Joran van der Sloot: If I were to see her, if I –
if she were to be found tomorrow, I think I’d hate her. I’d hate her.
Interviewer: Hate her?
Joran van der Sloot: Yes, I’d hate her, if she
really ran away from home, if she did something like that, I’d hate her.
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Next, Joran is quoted or perhaps
paraphrased:
(this is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The
interviewer says, "What Joran says he really wants is what the
Holloway family and everyone else wants as well, closure." Next,
the text goes back to the actual interview: |
Joran van der Sloot: If I end up getting cleared
because there’s not enough evidence, that won’t make anyone else believe me.
But if this case gets solved, that’s the only thing that will clear me and make
people actually believe me.
Interviewer: Do you think this will ever
end for you?
Joran van der Sloot: Yes, I think this will end
for me and this will end for everyone when the truth comes out.