"I'm gonna miss you all so much! And I love you very, very much," Reeva Steenkamp, slain girlfriend of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, said in a show that aired after she was found shot to death. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports.
By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News
A reality television show featuring model Reeva Steenkamp was aired in South Africa Saturday night, two days after she was shot dead, allegedly by her boyfriend, ?Blade Runner? Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius.
A pre-recorded clip on the ?Tropika Island of Treasure? show featured the law graduate talking about her "exit" from the series, which is filmed in the Caribbean.
"I think that the way you go out, not just your journey in life but the way that you go out and you make your exit is so important," she said in the clip ? words which have a new meaning in light of her death, in the early hours of Thursday.
Speaking directly to the camera, she said: "I'm gonna miss you all so much. And I love you very, very much."
Pistorius was charged on Friday with murdering Steenkamp at his home, although the athlete vehemently denied the accusation in a statement issued by his agent on Friday.
As the star remained in a Pretoria police station awaiting his next bail hearing on Tuesday, media reports carried more lurid details about the events surrounding Steenkamp?s death.
South African newspaper The Sunday Tribune reported claims by an un-named female friend of Pistorius that he called her frantically asking for help after the shooting, while UK newspaper The People published an interview with the athlete?s friend, Justin Divaris.
Divaris told the newspaper Pistorius had also called him in a panic ? even before he had called police.
The newspaper said Divaris saw a hysterical Pistorius being detained by cops at the house. ?He was totally incoherent and just kept saying, ?My baba, I?ve killed my baba. God take me away?,? he was quoted as saying.
A pastor who visited Pistorius at the police station on Sunday said he was still distraught.
"The Holy Spirit gave me an order that this is now the chance to go pray with Oscar," pastor AJ Wilson told Reuters outside the police station.
"The (police) colonel told him that I have come to pray with him. He just cried and we all cried together."
Pistorius? uncle, Arnold, on Saturday said the Paralympian was ?numb with shock, as well as grief?.
There was anger in South African at the decision by broadcaster SABC to air the reality show, Reuters reported ? particularly as Steenkamp will not be buried until Tuesday.
"It was very insensitive to put it on air before she was even buried," said 30-year-old insurance consultant Montle Ndlovu, according to Reuters. "It's such a sad story. She was young and pretty and had her whole life in front of her."?
Reuters contributed to this report.
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