Van der Sloot: If Holloway Is Found, 'I Think I'd Hate Her'

ByABC News
February 23, 2006, 11:12 PM

Feb. 24, 2006 — -- In an exclusive interview, Joran van der Sloot told ABC News' "Primetime" his side of the story about the night he met Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teen who disappeared from Aruba in May.

After all the inconsistencies in his statements about Holloway's disappearance, van der Sloot told ABC News' "Primetime" he understood why it was difficult for the media or other people to believe him.

"I don't trust the media, and I don't think, I don't really care, if the media trusts me or not," he said. "I want to be trusted, and you earn that trust by telling the truth. And that's what I am trying to do. … I'm just happy that I told the story. I said what happened, and that's good."

But van der Sloot also said if he could speak to Holloway now, he wouldn't have anything nice to say.

"If I were to see her … if she were to be found tomorrow, I think I'd hate her," he said. "If she really ran away from home, if she did something like that, I'd hate her."

Van der Sloot said he and Holloway met at a bar, where he did "jelly" shots and they had shots of Bacardi 151 rum. The two went to the beach, he said, where they "cuddled." That night, he says Holloway said something rather shocking about her mother, Beth Twitty.

"She told me her mom was Hitler's sister," he said.

Van der Sloot said that he was picked up by a friend at the beach but that Holloway refused to join him. He said he left her behind, which he now admits was the wrong thing to do.

Van der Sloot said that later, when Holloway went missing and he came face to face with Twitty, he lied and told her that he and his friend had dropped Holloway off at the Holiday Inn. Van der Sloot said he might have told the real story if the family had not been so aggressive when they met the first time.

"They show up at our house screaming and yelling, cussing," he said. "I mean, if -- 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."