I’ll never understand why people say “affair”. It’s not an affair, it’s predation of a child.

I am very disturbed by the fact she abandoned her children and tried to start a new family, just imagine what her children must think.

This was never an affair, this was sexual assault and an act of pederasty. THIS WAS A CRIME

She ruined 8 people's lives permanently

That’s not an affair. Saying it’s an affair implies it could be consensual. He was 13.

Pedophilia not an “affair.” And 7 1/2 years?! WHY ????? Drugs are more important than catching and keeping pedophiles off of streets right? 🤬

What's disgusting is her oldest child from her first marriage is just one year older than Vili. That's just so disgusting. And imagine knowing that your mom was messing around with someone one year older than you in elementary school? Wrong wrong wrong.

This woman is insane.

if this were a male, they wouldn't be doing an interview with him. it just shows the double standard

She was obsessed with him 😳

How disturbing is it that she had a son only one year younger than Vili (12) when she began sleeping with Vili.

She is insane. What the hell is she even talking about when says “I did my best.” She always says that and it makes no sense. She did her best to be a child sex predator?

She harassed him even while in prison groomed him while in prison made him believe he had to marry her. She was so obsessed its disgusting

She stole his life!!!!!

I feel Vili looks depressed! Because his innocence was stolen. And be with her for the rest of his life. So sad

His eyes don’t light up at all unless he’s talking about his children. He is not only a victim but a guy just trying to do right with what he’s been dealt with. He looks very miserable poor guy ...

In every interview I notice Mary Kay does not want to admit she did wrong

She just died from cancer and I don’t feel bad not even a bit.

She did her best.... to abandon her former husband and children, yes she did!! I wonder what kind of values she has taught to her teenage daughters.

Who else is here after learning of her death?

If you see your 12 y/o pupil and think that he/she is great kid, it's nice. If you see your 12 y/o pupil and want to sleep with him/her, you are a sick person. That's it. (You can meet that same pupil after 10 years and fall in love, but when they are 12 - seek help.)

Holy double standards Batman

She’s a adult, he was a child. She knew better then to have a relationship.

I met Mary k in person at a club in Seattle about 4 years ago. When she made the comment "it's nobody's business", that's exactly what she's like. In person she was very secretive about who she was

Is her teeth stuck together?? I’ve never seen anyone talk like Mary Kay, she’s also incredibly immature for an adult woman.

My parents would have never let me stay at any teacher "s house no matter how good of a teacher or person she/he may have been

Doing you best Mary, is protecting children, and not abusing them. I understand this woman has died, but she was truly scandalous and had no accountability or regret for her actions. It astounded me how so called educated adults were not able to see how manipulating and damaged she was. Regards from Ireland 🇮🇪

If this was a man he would have 30 years.

Each time she speaks it gives me the chills...somethign is cleatly wrong up there.

She was as nutty as a fruitcake and he was bullied and manipulated by her. Personally I'm glad for Villi, he's finally free of that narcissist.

She’s in so much denial. I’d love to hear what her children (4 of them) from her first marriage think of her. Do they have a relationship with her?

He looks miserable even his latest interview..from 2018

She had a distorted sense of reality. She's proud of doing wrong. She's living in an illusion that she's a young teenager and she had the same age with this young man. Listen to how she talked in this interview, like teenager in love.

Lady is disturbed and I'm not being mean. There is just something not right about her. This young man was depressed. I think they are just staying together to make it look legit.

If you're a teacher, and your student is coming onto you, you tell the principal. Apparently that didn't occur to this woman when she "tried her best".

He has grown up & now he can see something is wrong with her & I think he now is trying to protect her, & that is why he cut her off in a very kind way. He realizes his daughters are affected & probably love their mother & he does not want them to see her struggling to justify what he knows is not normal behavior.He has become the adult while she has stayed " like a child" in her mental illness, he is her protecter, that is the fantasy she creates in her mind about " their love". Hopefully, with therapy & support he will continue to grow up, & maybe she will consent to try & get help, but I think it is doubtful she will ever want to leave the fantasy without a major breakthrough. I hope she has tried to have a relationship with the four children she left behind, & they also can get help as well. She created the same wreckage her father did in her life, but does not see it. It is really tragic why you see the damage all this caused. I can really see her mental illness.

She was EXTREMELY evil and now has received the due penalty of her ways. She has been ignited. Forever. 🔥

She served THREE MONTHS for the initial offence of RAPING A CHILD. Gotta love that male privilege haven't we? A male teacher would have served many years. The disgusting double standard makes me sick.

Wtf !!! Is Barbara Walters trying to defend, normalise this predatory behaviour. I don’t care how old the kid acted, looked: he was 12 freakin years old. Regardless of whether it was a male or female teacher, it is creepy and morally/legally wrong. As it should be

Absolutely sickening, What about her other children 😢

Oh my God the way she rephrases the question in her favor...

Affair ?!?! WTH.

Who took the picture of those teo all hugged up together? I wanna know the sick person who took that picture, they had to have known what was going on. People in this world are seriously sick.

Ive noticed women, regardless of age, tend to get pregnant very easily when the male is younger. Young men have strong little swimmers.

She was a rapist, and NO man would have ever been treated with such kid gloves. 😢

She is crazy😮😮😮😮😮😮

Just like rice is rice, rape IS rape! And we should stop making excuses for this

She was crazy

There’s definitely something going on in Mary’s head.

"I did my best. I did my best." WTF does that even mean? Definitely a twisted and corrupt person. I feel so bad for her victim, gaslit by both her and society at large. Absolutely disgusting.

I love how she avoids the questions with an explanation😂. Classic manipulation. On another note, that’s the first time that I’ve seen villi take control during an interview when she avoided the “was it worth it?” question & he’s like “can you just ask that again?” & tells Mary “& you say yes”... I’m sure she plays this same game with him where everything is an explanation... 🤦🏼‍♀️ It actually calls to mind a specific politician who was running for a judges seat recently: did the same thing during the open interview & one of the main guys questioning him regarding details of a sex scandal kept getting annoyed like “can you please just answer the question??”. Manipulators don’t do that. They will have a story before an “answer” ever comes out. Dated one for 7 years & lived with one for 3, so I know the patterns. Granted, It’s normal that people in general might do this on a rare occasion if it’s passionate subject matter, but when it’s a DAILY pattern, you know who you’re dealing with.

Barbara asked her the same question ten years later only for dramatic effect in her interview. She must have known she wasn’t gonna her a straight answer like the first time.

They took the whole teacher's pet thing to a whole new level

I've actually spoken to Vili and they are now getting divorced. He feels that she was totally manipulative this whole time.

This interview was much more loving than their last interview before she died. I think it was done by 60 minutes and showed how they grew sick of each other, so these 2 were properly married and then had the issues of a married couple. Nobody is immune from it.

10 years later and she still dodging the question.

he looks so sad

My question is her other kids did they not mean anything to her? I feel sorry for what her other kids had to go thru ☹️

To the question “was it worth it”, she could never just give a yes or no answer. So that means “no”. LOL

3:00 that look he's just 'lady cut to the fucking chase!" hahaha

She’s nasty I can’t imagine my child with someone like her she should be in prison

I try not to be judgemental but there is something wrong with this woman.

I never heard of her until today, having read an article on her passing and what she did. I find it mind-blowing just how many of these women teachers are reasonably attractive. Surely they don't need to prey on young boys.

The answer for the question at 2:05 made me lol to the point where I'm sure my roommates heard me. 😄

Who Her After her Death?

Villi looks so dead behind the eyes. I feel awful for him.

"affair"????????????????that was a child

Abandoned her children to be with a child. Risked it all! Her freedom, her family, her reputation and future. What a sad shame

She still needs to be in jail!!

Suspended sentence? I know a female teacher locally who got probation for sleeping with a 15yo. It's certainly a huge double standard. A male teacher would get at least 10years and no sympathy. As an adult it doesn't matter how forward a juvenile is or if they initiated the relationship. An adult has to put the brakes on that. Adults especially in a position of authority need to maintain a professional relationship. If they don't feel like they can do that then they certainly don't need to be teachers, coaches or priests. A teenager is not mentally or emotionally able to consent to a relationship with you. There are plenty of grown men and women for you to persue. I have no sympathy for her.

I understand that she loves him and I don't have a problem with there relationship but what bothers me is that this affair started happening when he was 12

Oh...his name is Villi! Not Billy...I see

“Was it worth it?” She turns to a completely irrelevant question....uh, what?

The massive hypocrisy! Never has a male offender been treated with the same respect and concern, ("was it worth it" - i.e. swoon the sacrifice she made), by a news broadcaster as was Mary Kay Letourneau in these interviews.

This is so short and shouldn't be posted.... it shows him twice recorded and portrayed him as not a victim. And I hate how he had to ask and make sure he was allowed to cut her off. I'm literally sick to my stomach by this.

She didnt try her best I would have cut her off with that bullshit. Its called inform the parents, the principal, your husband if Villi was the one coming onto her and she didnt like it. But she did like it, and she was harrassing that boy even when she was in jail smh disgusting freak of nature, literally.

Bravo to the interviewer for her composure

“How long was it after your parole that you saw him again?” ... “not more than a couple hours” ... her in emotional distress: “I did do my best”

Unbelievable. She was forgiven once and didn't learn her lesson.

Some people never learn 😢

She seems(ed) to have a partially matured and well developed part of her personality, and then there is a part that seemed severely under-developed and, in essence, his age.

You cant call child rape, an "affair" its assualt. Call it assualt.

She died today from stage 4 cancer and they were divorced before she died but both of their kids are grown now with kids of their own

Her privilege allowed her to say "f**k the law, I'm gonna do what i want anyway." I thought I'd d a year, two at the most......wow!!! 😂😂😂😂

She is proud to be a predator she loves herself even through she preys on children she has no remorse and in her mind it’s love .

She has a child's mind in an adult body. Something's very wrong with her. And if this was an adult man and a girl this would have been treated totally different.

She always says I did my best,. Well that can be interpreted different ways!

Brigitte et Emmanuel Macron, their relationship is very similar to this case but well accepted by the media and the public.

Both Villi and Mary Kay had a mutual thing going on and neither could avoid each other. It's a 2 way situation.

She acts and sounds like an old, 13 year old.🤪

Adoraria se tivesse uma tradução em português

I have a 13 year old son, if any 30 odd year old woman was messing around with him id mess her up proper!!

Creepy.

She is a sick woman.

2:18 the way she dodges the question here is SO infuriating

He's telling her how she should feel by saying that her answer should be Yes " No" her answer should've been ' I apologize to all I've hurt especially my children . You don't give birth then abbandon your children as though they were never born .

The last Barbara Walters interview was bizarre! She looks like she was a drinker 🤔. Well he’s free now and wishing the best for him & his family

This is a time to be clear headed about this story. All the allure and appeal of this incident is sifting sand and cannot withstand the light of day with regards to its appropriateness. This tragedy cannot be made right by sympathetic journalism, and commentary that is tendered after the fact cannot reclaimed this malignance from the scrapheap of American Pop culture Dysfunction.

For anyone wanting to know she just passed away this year(2020)

She really thought she’d be once again , the exception to the rule. Another slap on the hand...she was wrong.