Her son and his friend killed 13 people at Columbine High School almost 17 years ago. Sue Klebold has lived with guilt since -- guilt for what her son did and how she, a loving mother, raised a boy who became a mass murderer.
She has spoken only a few times to the media in the past, but has never appeared on television. Her first TV interview, given to ABC's Diane Sawyer, airs Friday at 10 p.m. ET.
In it she talks about what life has been like after April 20, 1999, when her son, Dylan Klebold, and schoolmate Eric Harris committed what is the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history. Clad in black trenchcoats and wielding four guns, the pair worked their way through the school after their plan to blow up hundreds of classmates failed.
Images of terrified students being led from the school with their hands on their heads became ingrained in national memory.
Sue Klebold never thought her son would do anything so horrific.
"I had all those illusions that everything was OK because, and more than anything else, because my love for him was so strong," she says in the interview, according to a snippet released Thursday.
When her discussion with Sawyer turns to how many other parents insist they would have seen warning signs and been able to prevent the shootings, she says, "Before Columbine happened I would have been one of those parents."
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