Julia Faustyna claiming to be Madeleine McCann during talk show with Dr. Phil in United States of America | Photo: Reproduction / Dr. phil show
Julia Faustyna, 21, was at the Dr. Phil in the United States this week. Not only did he reiterate that he really believes he is Madeleine McCann, the girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007. She also said what she will do after the DNA test results are released..
At the request of Dr. Phil on why she didn’t send her DNA to Scotland Yard to compare with existing samples in the UK, she said she tried to contact the organization but was unsuccessful.
She also said that she always suspected that she was not the daughter of her biological parents.. According to Julia, the woman who raised her always changed the subject when asked about Julia’s early years or when she tried to talk about official documents such as her birth certificate.
The presenter urged her what she would do if she found out that she really is her birth parents’ daughter and she replied: “I believe I’m Madeleine McCann. If she’s my mother, I don’t want her to have contact with her, that’s all, but I don’t think she’s my mother.”
She also said she was willing to undertake any tests necessary to corroborate the claim and presented “evidence” such as the fact that she has very little memory of her own childhood.. The only memory he has before the age of eight is “beach and water, like sea or ocean, and there were turtles and children […] and I remembered buildings with light colors, like white or very light colors, sunlight in those buildings,” Julia said.
The scenario described by the young woman is similar to that of Madeleine McCann with her family on vacation in 2007. “As I was putting all the puzzles together, I thought, ‘Hmm, something makes sense and I think I need to understand why she remembers it exactly ‘” recalled Dr. Fia Johansson, private investigator and selfproclaimed psychic. She also welcomed Julia to the United States.
Last month, Julia’s family who had been silent on the case until then said it was “obvious” that she wasn’t Madeleine and claimed they “begged her to stop it”. In a statement released on behalf of the family by the Polish organization Missing Years Ago, they said: “The internet is not forgotten and it is evident that Julia is not [Madeleine]”.
Kate and Gerry McCann, Madeleine’s parents, have not yet officially commented on the matter. (With information from “Daily Star”)
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