'She was drunk the whole time': Body-in-suitcase killer Heather Mack claims her 'overbearing' mother would take her shoplifting and refused to let her move out of the family home
- Mack, 20, is serving ten years in Bali prison for murder of her socialite mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack
- The young killer told People website that her 62-year-old mom was controlling and 'hated everything about me'
- Mack, from Chicago, also claimed her mother would make her steal expensive French cosmetics, despite the family being wealthy
She's currently serving ten years in a Bali prison for the murder of her 62-year-old socialite mother, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in the trunk of a taxi.
Now killer Heather Mack has claimed she had a 'complicated' relationship with her parent, Sheila von Wiese-Mack - from fighting to bonding over shoplifting and, above all, her mother's overbearing nature.
She also claims that during the fateful trip to Indonesia, her mother was 'drunk the whole time and taking prescription pain pills'.
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'She hated everything about me': Heather Mack is currently serving 10 years in a Bali prison for the murder of her 62-year-old socialite mother, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in the trunk of a taxi. She is pictured with her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, sentenced to 18 years for battering Heather's mother to death
Mack said that her mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack (pictured) spoiled her with gifts, on the one hand - but also had a controlling personality, making her sleep in the same bed as her
Mack, who was then 19, and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 21, both from Chicago, were convicted in April of killing Von Wiese-Mack during the vacation last August. Schaefer was sentenced to 18 years in prison for battering his girlfriend's mother to death.
Sharing Mack's prison cell, for the time being, is the couple's six-month-old daughter Stella.
Speaking from the Kerobokan prison cell the mom and baby share with seven other women, Mack told Johnny Dodd from People: '[My mother] never wanted to be separated from me and yet she also hated everything about me.'
She claimed their relationship became strained after the death of her noted jazz musician father, James Mack, who bequeathed a $1.5million trust fund to his daughter.
She added that her mother spoiled her with gifts - but also had a controlling personality, making her sleep in the same bed as her.
Mack, pictured in her Bali jail cell with her daughter, Stella, who will be removed from the cell when she is two
According to Mack and a family friend who was also interviewed by People, Mack shoplifted French cosmetics with her mother - 'thousands of dollars-worth of make-up' - and was actively encouraged to do so, despite her family's wealth.
As Mack grew older, she had increasingly violent altercations with her mother; the family friend said Sheila would egg on her daughter by saying 'hit me, hit me' repeatedly until she did so.
Mack wound up in juvenile detention facilities on several occasions - but her mother's 'overwhelming abandonment issues' meant she struggled to be separated from her daughter - and would do 'everything she could to get me out'.
Those same abandonment concerns kicked in again when Mack tried to leave home when she turned 18.
Whenever Mack did try to move out, she said her mother would send her pictures of her trying to kill herself, claiming she'd never see her again if she didn't return straight away.
Throughout the interview with People, Mack insisted that she didn't kill her mother. Von Wiese-Mack was bludgeoned to death in the luxury hotel suite she shared with her daughter,
Speaking to Daily Mail Online, Mack said she hopes 'to be out of here in less than the ten years I've received. I've lost one appeal but I'm going to another court with a second appeal for a lower sentence.'
Even if she succeeds in getting a reduction in her sentence, Mack is unlikely to be released by the time daughter Stella is two years old. Then, her daughter will be taken away from her although it is not yet clear where she will be sent.
Mack is currently serving time in Indonesia's Kerobokan prison but hopes to have her sentence reduced
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