Posted on 05/05/2005 1:55:17 PM PDT by withteeth
Runaway Bride's Defense
Jennifer Wilbanks (Photo: CBS/AP)
"She is very sorry for the pain that she's caused her family, her fiancé, the community at large." Lydia Sartian, attorney for Jennifer Wilbanks
John Mason listens as family members speak to reporters in front of his home in Duluth, Ga., after learning his fiancé had been found alive, Saturday, April 30, 2005. (Photo: AP)
(CBS/AP) Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks issued an apology Wednesday for disappearing just before her wedding day, saying, "I had a host of compelling issues that seemed out of control."
Wilbanks made her apology in a statement read by her father's pastor.
"At this time I cannot fully explain what happened to me last week. I had a host of compelling issues that seemed out of control," she said.
Wilbanks disappeared from her Georgia town last week and turned up days later in New Mexico. She staged her own kidnapping just days before her wedding, setting off a nationwide search.
In a statement read by her pastor, Wilbanks says her disappearance had "nothing to do with cold feet," and that it was not about trying to get out of marrying her fiance, John Mason. She says she can't explain her actions except that she was running away from "certain fears" controlling her life.
"She has already apologized numerous times to people," attorney Lydia Sartian told CBS' The Early Show prior to Wilbanks' statement.
"She is very sorry for the pain that she's caused her family, her fiancé, the community at large. She's very regretful of the inconvenience and the problems that she has caused."
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wadeaminute...
Perhaps she is pregnant with a baby....she thought she would disappear for 14 months or so, come back, and say it was the imaginary rapists's kid.
Better the bridesmaids than the bride!
Actually black bridesmaids' dresses aren't that uncommon.
What rape claim?
Here we go again calling Baptist holy rollers. I am highly offended!!!!!!!!!!
I've said on several other threads that I heard the D.A. on Fox a few days ago say that her story about why she went to Las Vegas and how she spent her time there isn't yet satisfactory to him. He is pursuing the facts about her Vegas junket in greater detail.
Like me, the D.A. seems to think that she might have gone there to meet someone. Maybe it was an internet romance with some "white knight" who told her to meet him at the 2nd bank of slot machines at the Golden Nugget, and when she got there, she was either appalled at who her "white knight" turned out to be, or he stood her up - just didn't show -
I'm convinced that there is more to the story than a solo bus ride that somehow ended up in Glitz City.
I still want to find out if she and John ever/never shared a "kiss"...Was this a prearranged, bought and paid for marriage?
sw
Perhaps a cold heart?
Did the Pastor give a hint as to her new haircut?
Hey, there are actually some women out there who believe in not kissing until the wedding day.
There is nothing wrong with that.
However, this woman is not one of those admirable people. She is a wacko....afraid of intimacy and being seen naked etc.
Her eyes are like that in every picture I have seen of her. Obviously you exaggerated them, but the eyes are just freaky scary.
Okie dokie. Benefit extended.
She could have BDD.
It's nothing to laugh at.
I hadn't even thoughta that.
Really........
Maybe she's afraid of the Masons.
The gates are down, the lights are flashing . . . but the train ain't coming.
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