‘I don't know if she felt pain or what she felt but what I did was terrible’ – Oscar

Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp
Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp
By Tiso Black Star Group Digital

‘I don’t know if she felt pain or what she felt but what I did was terrible’ – Oscar

“I don’t know if she felt pain or what she felt but what I did was terrible‚” is how double amputee and paralympian Oscar Pistorius described the fatal shooting of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his Pretoria home in the early hours of Valentine’s Day in 2013 after allegedly mistaking her for being an intruder.

Pistorius‚ who is awaiting sentencing for Steenkamp’s murder‚ was speaking to Britain’s ITV in his first television interview since the tragic event.

“…obviously the hurt it’s caused my family; the hurt it caused mutual friends‚ most of them that I used to have don’t speak to me anymore‚ some of them I’m grateful that they’re still in my life. But I see the pain it’s caused Re’s

family and I don’t blame them‚” he told the interviewer.

He added: “I did take Reeva’s life and I have to live with that.

“I can smell the blood. I can feel the warmness of it on my hands. And to know that that’s your fault‚ that that’s what you’ve done.

“And I understand the pain people feel‚ that loved her and miss her. I feel that same pain.

“I feel that same hate for myself. I feel that same difficulty in understanding this. And I look back and I think‚ I always think – how did this possibly happen? I think‚ how could this have happened? How could this have happened?”

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