The mother of the blonde beauty shot dead by Oscar Pistorius said Tuesday she doesn’t care what happens to the once-beloved “Blade Runner” because it won’t bring her daughter back.
“It doesn’t matter to me what happens to Oscar because my daughter is never coming back,” a somber June Steenkamp said on the “Today” show about her daughter Reeva, who was 29 when she was killed on Valentine’s Day 2013.
“We just want the truth. We want the truth of what happened. And only she and Oscar were there. And she’s not here anymore,” she said.
“It’s not going to change anything. And that’s the most important thing to me in my life, trying to live without her now. I don’t wish him any harm, I just want the truth.”
Steenkamp attended the first day of Pistorius trial on murder charges Monday in a South African courtroom, hoping to look her daughter’s killer in the eye.
But the former Paralympic hero – nicknamed “Blade Runner” because of his prosthetic carbon-fiber legs – refused to meet her tearful gaze.
“I wanted to see Oscar face-to-face. I wanted to be there for my daughter,” she said, adding that her husband had recently suffered “a small stroke” and couldn’t be in court.
“I wanted him to see me. I’m the mother of Reeva. It’s important to me that he saw me there. That’s what I wanted yesterday.”
But Pistorius, 27 ignored her, she said.
“He just walked into the courtroom and he looked straight ahead, and then he sat down and never looked my way at all. I didn’t have an opportunity to do that.”
And despite her daughter’s bloody death in a bathroom at Pistorius’ posh Pretoria pad, she said she has no vengeance in her heart and is willing to forgive her daughter’s killer.
“It’s actually important to forgive him for me because I don’t want to live with bitterness in my life. I don’t want that. And I think that one has to forgive,” she said.
“I’ve lost the thing most precious in my life, myself and my husband. Our daughter, our beautiful daughter. We were close, we were really close. But still, I can forgive. I can forgive.”
Pistorius’ murder trial continued Tuesday. He has admitted shooting Steenkamp as she cowered in his bathroom, but claims he thought she was an intruder at the heavily guarded, gated compound where he lived.