A woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann says her early childhood memories are "eerily similar" to the location where the tot vanished 16 years ago.
Julia Faustyna, who also goes by the name of Julia Wendell or Julia Wandelt, claims she has only one memory from her childhood - which is being on a beach by the ocean. The 21-year-old appeared on Dr Phil on Monday to discuss her claims that she is the missing child who disappeared while on holiday with her parents in Praia De Luz, Portugal, in 2007.
Addressing the audience, host Dr Phil said: "Julia says she has no recollection of her earlier childhood, except for one memory. What she remembers is eerily similar to the place where Madeleine McCann was last seen alive."
Discussing her only early memory, Julia said: "I have some single memories since eight, nine years old. And before eight, I have only this one memory with beach and water, like sea or ocean, and there were turtles and children trying to catch the turtles and take them in their hands.
"And I remembered light-coloured buildings, like white or very light colours, sunlight on this building."
The Mirror reports that Dr Fia Johansson, a private investigator and medium who is helping Julia, claims her memory has a resemblance to the environment in which Madeleine disappeared. Appearing on the talk show, she said: "When I put it all together, I thought, 'Hmm, something makes sense and I need to get into why she remembers just those things'."
Speaking about the buildings Julia remembers, she added: "So that could be one of those memories too that maybe she had at the age of three. That could possibly be the same building that Madeleine vanished from in 2007."
Julia is currently waiting for the DNA results which will confirm or deny her suspicions. During her interview, she was also asked what she would do if the Polish couple who raised her were in fact her biological family.
She stated: "I believe I am Madeleine McCann. If she is my mother, I don’t want to have contact with her that’s all, but I believe she isn’t my mother."
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