One day after pleading guilty to perjury Shellie Zimmerman, the wife of George Zimmerman, told ABC News that the couple's relationship has been severely strained since her husband shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and that she is "going to have to think about" whether to stay with him, according to ABC News.
Wednesday Shellie appeared in court to agree to plead guilty to non-felony perjury after she had lied about the financial assets of both herself and her husband during a bond hearing for George. Despite Shellie being in the courtroom to support George throughout the entire murder trial, or at least as much of it as she could legally be in the room since she was a potential witness, George did not show up for her court date.
Shellie said that she felt "very much alone" attending the court hearing by herself. She also told interviewer Christi O'Connor that she was also "slightly" disappointed that George didn't stand up for her after she lied about the couples finances, according to ABC News.
"I can rationalize a lot of reasons for why I was misleading, but the truth is I knew I was lying," Shellie said. "I wish a lot of things were different. I can't tell you how many times I have laid at night saying 'God, I wish these circumstances had been different.'"
Shellie described the kind of life the Zimmermans lived during the time between George's arrest and the start of the trial. Due to the notoriety George received because of the case the couple moved multiple times and hired bodyguards creating an extremely stressful situation, according to ABC News.
"I think we have been pretty much like gypsies... We've lived in a 20-foot trailer in the woods, scared every night that someone was going to find us and that we'd be out in the woods alone and that it would be horrific," Shellie said. "It's difficult to communicate with your spouse when you're under so much scrutiny from both sides and I think we both have been fighting for our own individual struggles to be heard by each other and that's been difficult."
Shellie told ABC News that she believes that her husband acted out of self-defense when he shot and killed Martin. Shellie Zimmerman also expressed great sympathy for the ordeal that Martin's parents have had to go through.
"If I could speak to them I would say that I'm so deeply sorry for their loss.... I can't even begin to understand the grief that a parent experiences when they lose a child," Shellie said.
