Ted Bundy’s ex-girlfriend was inspired by the #MeToo movement to come forward about her experience dating the infamous lady-killer, according to a new report.
“It gave me the opportunity to tell the story from the beginning to the end in my own words,” Elizabeth Kendall told Vanity Fair about her decision to speak out in a new documentary.
Kendall said the onslaught of Bundy films in recent years sent her back to counseling. But at the same time, the #MeToo movement blossomed, she said.
“I just feel like the timing was right because we were seeing and hearing women take back their lives by telling the truth about what had happened to them,” she told the magazine. “I mean, I have a hard time and still carry a lot of shame about having even loved the guy.”
Kendall and her daughter, Molly, are seen for the first time on camera in the Amazon docuseries, “Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer.”
Kendall reportedly admits in the doc she hasn’t had a connection with anyone like the one she shared with Bundy, whom she met in 1969 and dated for five years. Twenty years later, he was executed after admitting killing 30 women.
Ted Bundy and Elizabeth at Snowbird ski resort in Utah in 1974, warming by a fireplace.Courtesy of Amazon Prime Video“It felt like two pieces of a puzzle coming together. It just fit. It was quite spectacular,” she said, according to a report in Elle magazine.
The documentary has given her closure and “perspective on some of the decisions I made,” she said.
“I was just struggling with what was real and what wasn’t, as far as my relationship with Ted. Through this process, and I mean, it’s been a couple of years—it’s been a lot of thinking, thinking, thinking. I have just really reexamined everything,” she said admitting she still has moments of confusion.
“In the book there are a lot of pictures of me and Molly and Ted. I look at those and I remember how in love I was, and how I thought this was it—my life with my [future] husband and all this fantasy that I’d whipped up,” she said.
