I just watched an old interview with Susan Atkins, one of Charlie’s girls who carved up the pregnant Sharon Tate, and she said more or less the same thing.
I have seen an interview with Susan Atkins in prison. Seems she became a born again Christian and regretted what she did.
I sure hope for her sake she did repent. She seemed changed but only God knows her heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q-LiARYmqc