Teacher Marries Student: Couple Are Celebrating Decade Of Marriage & Have Two Children [VIDEO]
Mary Kay Letourneau was having an affair with her sixth grade student, Vili Fualaau, when she became pregnant and was outed.
Now, the two are married and have two children together and are sharing their story with Barbara Walters.
Letourneau was arrested at the time and spent 7.5 years in prison, and it seems that the focus of this interview is going to be their two teenage daughters who are well aware of the incident that brought their parents together, according to ABC News.
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"If it wasn't strong enough in the beginning, it wouldn't have carried through those years," Letourneau said in the clip of the interview.
During the interview, Letourneau explains to Walters that their relationships went form emotional to sexual after the two had bonded over Fualaau's "gift for drawing."
"The incident was a late night that it didn't stop with a kiss," Letourneau said. "And I thought that it would and it didn't."
Letourneau pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree child rape and was sentenced to 89 months in prison. When she was paroled she got pregnant again and was sent back to jail where she gave birth to her second daughter with Fualaau.
For the then 14-year-old boy who was about to become a father, the time was tough as he was very confused about everything that was happening.
"I'm surprised I'm still alive today," Fualaau said. "I went through a really dark time."
"It was a huge change in my life, for sure," he said. "I don't feel like I had the right support, the right help behind me ... from my family, from anyone, in general. I mean, my friends couldn't help me because they had no idea what it was like to be a parent, I mean, because we were all 14, 15."
Even though the two were not allowed to see each other, Fualaau thought that would be the only thing that would help him get through.
"I think the only person that I really ... needed to talk to-- I mean, if they gave me more options or choices to make instead of just saying, 'Oh, you can't talk to her anymore,' and I was like, 'I really do want to talk to her, though,'" he said.
When Letourneau was released from prison, Fualaau was 21 years old and the two married.
Despite having had a very young relationship himself, he said he would be completely against it if one of his children was in a relationship with a teacher.
"I don't support younger kids being married or having a relationship with someone older," Fualaau said. "I don't support it."
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