LOS ANGELES – Vili Fualaau, who had two children with his former sixth-grade teacher, says the two have been meeting daily since her release from prison and would like to marry.
“We still have the same feelings for each other, times forever,” Fualaau, now 21, told television talk show host Larry Elder.
The interview will air Wednesday on the newly syndicated “The Larry Elder Show.”
Mary Kay Letourneau, 42, served 71/2 years on a 1997 conviction for child rape. Fualaau was 12 when they began their relationship after meeting at a Seattle-area school.
A no-contact order prohibited Fualaau from meeting Letourneau. At Fualaau’s request, however, the order was lifted in August, shortly after she was released from prison.
“I been seeing her every day” since her release, Fualaau told Elder.
The couple’s daughters, ages 7 and 6, are in the custody of his mother. Fualaau said he will seek custody of the children at some point.
Fualaau, who didn’t finish high school, said he has been living with a friend and has been “in and out of jobs.”
“What’s next is that we gotta get ourselves financially stable,” he said. “And have to work out the family court issues. And then I guess it would be safe to say, well, safe to get married.”
Letourneau has had continued contact with the couple’s daughters. Her four older children, who live in Alaska with her ex-husband, also visited her in prison a few times a year.
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