ABC News conducted an extensive interview of Shellie Zimmerman this morning.
In a wide-ranging interview conducted by investigative freelance journalist Christi O’Connor, Zimmerman said on the evening Martin died she was staying elsewhere because the couple had got in an argument the night before and that the struggles of the last year and a half have further strained their relationship. Shellie Zimmerman, who pleaded guilty to perjury Wednesday for lying about the couples finances during her husband’s bond hearing, refused to comment on whether she was pressured to do so. She said a part of her feels “slightly” like she was hung out to dry when he did not stand up for her when she lied to a judge about how much money that had received in donations from outsiders and that the entire ordeal has hurt their relationship. Shellie Zimmerman declined to say whether she and her husband remain together, but did say she felt “very much alone” without him in the courtroom to support her when she pleaded guilty Wednesday. “I can rationalize a lot of reasons for why I was misleading, but the truth is I knew that I was lying,” Shellie Zimmerman said. “I wish a lot of things were different. I can’t tell you how many times I have laid at night saying God, I wish these circumstances had been different.” Shellie and her husband spent a year and a half in hiding, isolated and in “terror” for their lives as they awaited the trial for the death of the unarmed teenager in 2012. “I think we have been pretty much like gypsies…We’ve lived in a 20-foot trailer in the woods, scared every night that someone was going to find us and that we’d be out in the woods alone and that it would be horrific,” she said.
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