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WATCH: Pistorius’ girlfriend delivers chilling goodbye

Tragic model Reeva Steenkamp left a haunting message to the world about the importance of leaving a positive mark in life in a chilling prerecorded interview that sounds like a message from the beyond.

“I think the way that you go out — not just your journey in life — but the way that you go out to make your exit is so important,” 29-year-old Steenkamp said in a minute-long video released today, between shots of her kissing and swimming with dolphins during the season premiere of South Africa’s reality show “Tropika Island of Treasure.”

“You either made in impact in a positive way or a negative way,” continues the model, who was found shot dead on Valentine’s Day at the Pretoria mansion of her Olympian boyfriend Oscar Pistorius, who has been charged with her murder.

“But just maintain integrity, maintain class and just always be true to yourself.”

Steenkamp had been looking forward to today’s premiere of “Tropika Island,” a popular show in South Africa, and had asked her entire family to follow along.

“Reeva would’ve liked us to watch it,” the budding model’s uncle, Mike Steenkamp, told People magazine. “She indicated that before the tragedy.”

Producers of the show — which features a beaming, bikini-clad Steenkamp — said not airing the premiere would be an “injustice” to the model’s memory.

Her haunting message, recorded months before her death, appears filled with poignancy. In the end of the video, she seems to almost speak directly her family and friends.

“And I’m going to miss you all so much,” she says, while smiling and dancing and living it up in Jamaica. “I love you very, very much.”

PHOTOS: REEVA STEENKAMP

Meanwhile, Pistorius’ uncle said today that the athlete is “numb with shock as well as grief” after Steenkamp’s death.

Arnold Pistorius spoke with The Associated Press and two other South African journalists from the garden of his three-story home in the eastern suburbs of Pretoria.

The statement, the first on camera and directly made in person by Pistorius’ family, also came out strongly against prosecutors seeking to upgrade the charge against Pistorius to one of premeditated murder, which carries a sentence of life in prison.

“After consulting with legal representatives, we deeply regret the allegation of premeditated murder,” Arnold Pistorius said. “We have no doubt there is no substance to the allegation and that the state’s own case, including its own forensic evidence, strongly refutes any possibility of a premeditated murder or murder as such.”

He said the family was “battling to come to terms with Oscar being charged with murder.”

Arnold Pistorius did not discuss the circumstances of the shooting, but said that his nephew and Steenkamp had become very close since they started dating in November.

“They had plans together and Oscar was happier in his private life than he had been for a long time,” the uncle said.

Oscar Pistorius remains held at a police station pending a bail hearing Tuesday. Police have already said they’ll oppose Pistorius being released before trial. A premeditated murder charge also makes it more difficult for his defense team to get bail.

On Saturday afternoon, Pistorius’ lawyers visited the Brooklyn police station in Pretoria, where the athlete is being held. His younger sister Aimee, who stood alongside Arnold Pistorius when he made his statement, also was at the police station later.

There will be a variety of hearings before Pistorius, 26, could go on trial. In South Africa, there are no juries, so a judge ultimately would decide Pistorius’ guilt or innocence, sometimes with the help of two advisers. At an initial hearing Friday, Pistorius sobbed and held his head in his hands at times. He has yet to enter a plea in the case.

The family denial that Pistorius committed murder doesn’t necessarily mean that they say he didn’t shoot her, as murder is a legal term. Initial speculation immediately after the shooting Thursday suggested that it could have been accidental, though police say they are not currently considering that.

As Arnold Pistorius read his statement, Pistorius’ sister Aimee stood nearby and broke down in tears at one point. Her uncle stopped reading for a moment to put his right arm around her. Pistorius remains very close with his uncle, a man he once lived with as a teenager.

“Words cannot adequately describe our feelings,” his uncle said. “The lives of our entire family have been turned upside down forever by this unimaginable human tragedy and Reeva’s family have suffered a terrible loss. As a family we are trying to be strong and supportive to Oscar as any close family would be in these dreadful circumstances.”

The entire family was “devastated,” Pistorius’ uncle said, and was “grieving for Reeva, her family and her friends.”

Since news of the killing, shock waves have rippled across South Africa, a nation of 50 million where nearly 50 people are killed each day, one of the world’s highest murder rates. UN statistics say the nation has the second highest rate of shooting deaths in the world, behind only Colombia. Others have focused their attention on Pistorius and his fascination with fast cars, cage fighting and firearms.

With AP