'Survivor' Producer's Mother Tells Children Their Mother Died in Car Crash, TMZ Reports
TMZ: Bruce Beresford-Redman's mother tells kids their mom died in car crash.
May 26, 2010— -- The mother of former "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redman has been telling his young children that their slain mother was killed in a car crash, infuriating the dead woman's family.
According to court filings obtained by TMZ, Monica Beresford-Redman's sister Carla Burgos claims the children were told gruesome details about an accident that never happened.
Bruce Beresford-Redman's mother Juanita told the children, TMZ says Burgos claimed in the legal documents, that "their mother had been hit by a car, fell, and hit her head."
"She further told the children that no one in Mexico knew their mother, so no one could find her until their father finally found her in the hospital," the filing said, according to TMZ, "and at the time she was already dead."
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Bruce Beresford-Redman made headlines earlier this week when he returned to Los Angeles without his passport, a trip Mexican authorities said he made without their knowledge.
Though Mexican investigators have said they told Beresford-Redman not to leave the country, Jaime Cansino Leon, one of his Cancun-based lawyers told ABC News that "legally speaking he's a free man and he doesn't have any obligation whatsoever to stay in Cancun.
"Bruce has not been accused of any crime," Leon said. "Therefore, he's innocent."
An ABC News camera this week recorded Beresford-Redman driving into the garage of the home he once shared with his wife for the first time since she died.
When asked how he was holding up, Beresford-Redman replied, "I don't even know how to answer that question."
He was seen pitching a tent in the backyard while the couple's two young children watched.
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