'My mom didn't hug me': Julia Wandelt reveals mom's cold behavior led her to think she's Madeleine McCann
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Julia Wandelt disclosed that she initially thought she could be missing Madeleine McCann because her mother never expressed love toward her. The 21-year-old Polish woman, also known as Julia Faustyna and Julia Wendell, recently appeared on the show, ‘Dr. Phil’, where she opened up about her claims that she might be the three-year-old British toddler, who went missing during a family picnic in Portugal in 2007.
During the interview, Wandelt said her suspicions about being Madeleine were strengthened in 2022 when she started questioning her parents about their biological relationship. "About a year ago I started to make research on the internet because I started to think that maybe I'm the missing child,” Wandelt said. The Polish woman said she questioned her identity after she noticed her mother’s suspicious and cold behavior toward her.
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'My mother didn't hug me, didn't say I love you'
"I felt in my life that something is wrong here because my mother didn't hug me, didn't say 'I love you' so it was a little suspicious to me," Wandelt said during the interview. The 21-year-old stated she questioned her mother about being pregnant as well as specific papers, such as her birth certificate, but that she was always fast to divert the conversation. Wandelt continued by pointing out how every Polish youngster has a child health book.
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However, she says her child's health book is mysteriously bare. "My child health book, pages 0 to 6, they are blank," she claimed. "When I started to think that I could be Madeleine, I called to the Polish Embassy, I called to the English Embassy but nobody listened," Wandelt added. Further, in the tell-all interview, she stated that she has some childhood memories that appear to tie her to the place where Madeleine vanished from in 2007. "Julia says she has no recollection of her earlier childhood, except for one memory," the host reportedly said. He added, "What she remembers is eerily similar to the place where Madeleine McCann was last seen alive.”
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Julia Wandelt's single memory from her past
In response, Wandelt said, “I have some single memories since eight, nine years old. And before eight, I have only this one memory of beach and water, like sea or ocean, and there were turtles and children trying to catch the turtles and take them in their hands. And I remembered light-colored buildings, like white or very light colors, sunlight on this building.”
On the program, Julia was accompanied by Dr Fia Johansson, a private detective who is assisting Wandelt in determining her true identity. The pair is currently bunkering at an undisclosed property in Los Angeles, where they are waiting for Wandelt's DNA test result, which will bring them one step closer to finding out the truth about her past and upbringing.
