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Primetime Live  ABC Thursday February 23, 2006 

Joran interview, with all editorial comments removed. 
What follows is the interview with Joran as presented on Primetime ABC, but with all extraneous lead in's which were not related to the inteview removed.  In addition to the interview, Primetime provided introductory voice overs with background and history along with editorial comments.  This transcript is based entirely on the interview as presented. 
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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 Aruba. And I think it’s about time that people get to see the other side of the story.

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
 

Next, Joran is quoted or perhaps 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 Mountain Brook school that sat down next to me and wanted to play as well. They’d already been drinking that day and had drinks with them.
 

Next, Joran is quoted or perhaps 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 Natallee 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.
 

Next, Joran is quoted or maybe 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 12:00 already. And the club was closing at 1:00, I think. On the way to the bar, Natalee was on the stage dancing and she saw me. She screamed to me, ‘come dance with me. Come dance with me.” And then before I know it she walks by and she grabbed my hand and said, ‘dance with me.”

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.
 

Next, Joran is quoted or maybe 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.
 

Next, Joran is quoted or maybe paraphrased: (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.
 

Next, Joran is quoted or maybe 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 Aruba?

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 
Aruba. So I leaned up and I told Deepak to go ahead and drive to the lighthouse.
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.
 

Next, Joran is quoted or maybe paraphrased: (this is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The 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 the actual interview:

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 Alabama. She was having too much fun in Aruba.

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 Alabama.
 

Next, Joran is quoted or maybe paraphrased: (this is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The interviewer says, "Joran says at about 2:30 am, he calls his friend Deepak for a ride home.  And while waiting, he says he tried one last time to get Natalee to go."   Next, the text goes back to the actual interview:

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. 
 

Next, Joran is quoted or maybe paraphrased: (this 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.
 

Next, Joran is quoted or maybe paraphrased: (this is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The 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:  Lot of thought went into this fake story. Do you understand why that would be troubling to people?

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.
 

Next, Joran is quoted or maybe paraphrased: (this is perhaps from an off camera edited part of the interview:) The 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, the text goes back to the actual interview:

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


Following response by Joran 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.


Following seems to be a teaser for an interview segment which follows:

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 8:00 in the morning till 10:00 at night, straight just interrogations.

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.
 

Next, the interview has been snipped: (What we get is an off camera statement to introduce the next part of the interview.) We don't actually know what Joran is responding to, because we don't hear the 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 actual interview:

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.
 

Next, the interview has been snipped: (What we 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, "But, according to police documents, the brothers say neither of them drove Joran home. Joran says now they are lying."   Next, the text goes back to the actual interview:

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.
 

Next, the interview has been snipped: (What we 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, "Van der Sloot wsa in prison for almost three months. He turned 18 behind bars."   Next, the text goes back to the actual interview:

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.
 

Next, the interview has been snipped: (What we 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 America, welcome to America, (censored), tell us where her body is. Tell us where her body is.
 

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 New York yesterday.."  Then the interviewer off camera in voice over says, "Joran himself was served while still on the plane, and then confronted again by people working for the family.  Next, the text goes back to the actual interview:

Joran van der Sloot:  Started screaming, here, take this. It’s official. Started saying, (censored), welcome to America, welcome to America, (censored).
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 Aruba against them.

Joran van der Sloot:  That they would go and boycott Aruba, that for me is just going too far. That’s ridiculous. That’s absurd.

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.
 

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 Florida, but instead has decided to switch to Holland, where he believes he can blend in away from the media glare."  Next, the text goes back to the actual interview:

Joran van der Sloot:  I have awesome friends here. And I have awesome friends in Aruba. I think I’ve been portrayed unfairly. I’ve been portrayed as a murderer and a rapist, and everything that I’m not.

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.
 

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.

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