Natalee Holloway’s mum wants people to take away two lessons after the Netflix documentary
She learned a lot over the 20-year search
Beth Holloway spent the best part of 20 years looking for answers about the disappearance of her daughter, Natalee, and she’s spoken out after the new Netflix documentary, Taken.
“The weight of the world has been lifted off me,” she said in a new interview with NBC. “I spent 18 years in the dark. I just couldn’t see it. I couldn’t find it. I couldn’t hear it, and so I’d waited 18 years, and it’s horrible that that’s the news I get. Families need to know the answers, no matter how brutal they are.”
Across those years, as numerous arrests were made and the man responsible, Joran van der Sloot, shared fabricated story after fabricated story, one thing kept the mum going: Hope.
“I was determined by hope, and I was driven by love, and the love for my daughter, and to find out the answers to what happened to her, and I was acting on faith. And when you do those three things, you can accomplish a lot,” she added.
Beth Holloway wants us to remember two things
Credit: Today Show
Also in the NBC interview, which was the first since the release of the Netflix doc, Natalee’s mum urged viewers to consider two lessons after watching the doc.
“I’d like for them to see the capacity of faith to carry you through the most difficult times,” she said. “You have to be determined by hope.”
Her second hope was for people to be more mindful when travelling abroad, which is particularly poignant considering Natalee was on a trip with friends.
“I want to make sure that they’re also seeing why they do need to be mindful and make a plan, because that’s why I spent the last 18 to 20 years pounding the podiums, because we can never have too many safety reminders,” Beth Holloway explained.
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