Casey Anthony makes bombshell claims about daughter’s death in new Peacock docuseries - Yahoo News

It’s been much than a decennary since Casey Anthony’s sanction dominated headlines astir the country. Now, she is yet speaking retired successful her archetypal on-camera interrogation since she was famously acquitted successful 2011 of charges of murder, manslaughter and kid maltreatment pursuing the decease of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

“Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies,” a three-part constricted docuseries, premiered Nov. 29 connected Peacock. Peacock is owned by NBCUniversal, the genitor institution of NBC News.

In the series, Anthony maintains immoderate of the aforesaid claims her ineligible squad made successful her defence each those years agone — including that she was sexually abused by her father, George Anthony, and that helium lied to screen up Caylee’s death. George Anthony previously denied some of those claims successful court.

Caylee was past seen connected June 16, 2008, investigators person said. Cindy Anthony, Caylee’s grandmother, reported the kid missing on July 15, 2008 — 31 days later. The adjacent day, constabulary arrested Casey Anthony connected kid neglect charges. At the time, she told investigators the toddler had been taken by a babysitter.

Six months later, Caylee’s skeletal remains were recovered little than a mile distant from her grandparents’ Orlando home.

In her bombshell interrogation with Alexandra Dean, showrunner and director, Casey Anthony makes respective different revelations.

She lied to investigators

Anthony was yet convicted of 4 misdemeanor counts of lying to investigators who were looking into her child’s 2008 disappearance.

She incorrectly told investigators her girl had disappeared with a babysitter, whom she aboriginal said did not exist, and said that she worked astatine Universal Studios successful Orlando erstwhile she did not.

“It was the close blameworthy verdict. I did prevarication to instrumentality enforcement, I admitted that I lied to instrumentality enforcement, truthful I americium a convicted liar. It’s the truth,” she said successful the caller series.

In an effort to explicate wherefore she had lied, Anthony said it stemmed from being abused arsenic a kid and inactive pursuing her father’s instructions — adjacent aft seeing her daughter’s limp body.

“I lied to everyone due to the fact that that was my full beingness up until that point,” she said successful the series. “Acting similar everything’s OK but knowing thing was OK. I’ve had years of therapy and I’m trying to analyse my ain behaviour and explicate my ain behavior, each of this is simply a absorption of trauma."

“I made myself look crazy. And gave instrumentality enforcement perfectly nary crushed to judge oregon spot thing that I said,” she continued.

“I get wherefore from an extracurricular position each of this seems truthful ...” she trailed off. “Because adjacent for me, it inactive feels that way. As acold arsenic I americium concerned, there’s nary justifying my actions oregon behavior, but to accidental that I was doing what I was conditioned to do.”

She alleges she was abused by her father

In the documentary, Anthony reiterated her erstwhile allegations that her begetter abused her betwixt the ages of 8 and 12, which her begetter denied.

“When I was 8 years old, my begetter started to travel into my country astatine night,” she said. “I was physically hurt, frightened due to the fact that I was physically wounded and I ‘can’t archer mommy what happened (or) she’ll get huffy astatine me.’ That’s what I was told.”

George Anthony declined to beryllium interviewed for the Peacock series. He did not respond to aggregate requests for remark by TODAY.com.

She alleges Caylee was a merchandise of rape erstwhile she was 18

In the documentary, Anthony said her household besides asked her to fell that she was large astatine the property of 18.

She said she was raped astatine a location enactment aft being drugged.

“(I) had a mates beers, wholly mislaid my representation due to the fact that I was drugged,” she said. “I woke up with my apical on, my jeans connected the level with my underwear, and my bra inactive wrong of my garment but up implicit my breasts.”

She added she was “lethargic” and “extremely disoriented” from the drugs and “could consciousness similar (she’d) had forcible sex.”

She said she initially claimed the babe was her ex-boyfriend’s but helium yet got a paternity trial and discovered helium wasn’t the father.

“I lied to everyone,” she said. “That’s what i’m saying, it’s truthful f----d up, it’s conscionable years of feeling similar I needed to unrecorded a definite beingness oregon amusement radical I lived a definite life, due to the fact that I didn’t privation radical to pity maine and I didn’t privation my kid to turn up reasoning she was the merchandise of thing truthful atrocious and that I didn’t privation her.”

What she remembers astir that fateful morning: ‘It’s not much’

Anthony recounted the greeting her girl apt died for the cameras. She said that greeting she woke up to marque her girl meal but “wasn’t feeling that great.” She went backmost to bed, turned connected the TV and Caylee laid successful furniture with her.

“I’ve been a airy sleeper my full life,” she said successful the documentary. “Because I’m utilized to idiosyncratic opening the doorway portion I’m asleep. I americium utilized to being connected alert, particularly with my kid adjacent to me. It’s portion of the crushed she slept successful furniture with maine truthful much.”

She said she knew her dada was location but she fell dormant and “was dormant for a while.”

The adjacent happening she remembers, she said, is her begetter shaking her, asking wherever Caylee was. She said it "didn’t marque sense" to her due to the fact that she thought her toddler had been adjacent to her successful the bed.

Anthony added that her girl “would ne'er adjacent permission my country without telling me, adjacent if she had to spell to the bathroom.”

“She knew she wasn’t allowed to conscionable beryllium successful the location by herself,” she said.

Anthony said she started searching astir the location and past successful the gait for her daughter. By the clip she came backmost from searching extracurricular astir the house, she said, her dada was “standing determination with her.”

“She’s soaking wet,” she said, tearfully. “I tin spot him lasting determination with her successful his arms and handing her to maine and telling maine that it’s my fault. That I did that. That I caused that.”

She said she “collapsed” with Caylee’s assemblage successful her arms, which felt “heavy” and “cold.”

Instead of calling 911 oregon trying to revive Caylee, Anthony said her begetter took Caylee and told her it was “going to beryllium OK.”

“I don’t cognize however agelong I sat outside, I don’t cognize wherever helium went, helium took her from maine and helium went away,” she said. “I don’t cognize wherever helium went and I don’t cognize what helium did.”

Why she didn’t telephone 911

Anthony said she understands radical volition question wherefore she didn’t telephone 911 oregon waited to archer her mom.

“I cognize radical are going to question wherefore didn’t I marque a telephone call, wherefore didn’t I telephone 911, wherefore did adjacent I hold to archer my ma anything, but I didn’t archer her anything, wherefore lie?” she said. “Knowing that I failed to support my kid and I kept failing her adjacent aft that. I failed her again and again and again. Because I inactive protected the idiosyncratic who wounded me.

“It was similar I was brainwashed. And it wasn’t until overmuch aboriginal that I started to truly recognize why,” she said. “It’s similar I had Stockholm syndrome.”

Anthony believed her girl was OK until her assemblage was found

“During the 31 days, I genuinely believed that Caylee was inactive alive. My begetter kept telling maine that Caylee was inactive OK,” she recounted in the caller docuseries. "There were nary threats, I conscionable knew that I had to bash what helium wanted maine to, the aforesaid crushed I knew that since the clip I was 8 years old. Just bash what helium wants, it worked before, bash it now. I did what I needed to bash to survive.”

She added that her begetter would archer her Caylee was “fine” and to conscionable “keep doing what I’m telling you to bash ... You guys volition beryllium reunited soon. That’s what sticks with maine — helium told maine astatine 1 constituent we would beryllium reunited soon.”

Anthony said that she was “conditioned” by her begetter and wanted to judge her girl was alive.

“I truly wanted to judge him, and possibly that’s the disassociation. Maybe that’s trying to support myself from the symptom of having known heavy down, each along, that thing happened and I didn’t privation to face it,” she said. “I privation it were a elemental reply and a elemental mentation but thing astir trauma oregon maltreatment is ever elemental due to the fact that you’re conscionable trying to survive.

“That full clip helium told maine she was going to beryllium OK. It’s what I chose to accept, due to the fact that determination was that small miss wrong of maine that wanted to judge helium wouldn’t wounded her the mode helium wounded me.”

Anthony says she inactive doesn’t cognize ‘what the information is’

Anthony never outright said in the caller Peacock bid what she thinks happened that greeting and straight says that she doesn’t “know what the information is.”

“It’s wherefore each of this is truthful hard. I unrecorded with that guilt of feeling similar I failed her and didn’t support her harmless and support her. I’ve ever wanted the information due to the fact that I’ve lived truthful agelong without it,” she said. “But I don’t cognize if I tin grip each of it. I don’t cognize if it would beryllium amended to cognize oregon conscionable support not knowing. Because I don’t cognize what the information is. All I cognize is that thing happened.”

What’s next?

In the years since her trial, Anthony has been moving for her defence lawyer, Pat McKenna. She besides said in the docuseries that she lived astatine his location with his household pursuing her proceedings arsenic she got backmost connected her feet.

She said she volition ever wonderment what could person been if she handled her daughter’s decease differently.

“It’s a hard happening to unrecorded with everyday, due to the fact that nothing’s going to bring her back,” she said, emotional. “Even if I someday get the answers that I need, it’s ne'er going to beryllium enough. It’s ne'er going to beryllium enough.”

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