A transgender woman who described herself as the "Michelangelo of buttocks injections" wants the mother of the woman she allegedly killed to know what really happened when her daughter died from a botched injection of industrial-grade silicone, the Associated Press reported.
"More than anything in the world, I want to get up there and I want to talk. The most important thing is to put Claudia's mother at peace by speaking," defendant Padge Victoria Windslowe, 45, said Thursday of Claudia Aderotimi, who died in a Pennsylvania airport hotel room in February 2011.
Windslowe's account of what happened to Aderotimi, a 20-year-old dancer from London, is to come during her trial for third-degree murder and practicing medicine without a license among other charges.
Prosecutors say the aspiring Gothic hip-hop artist, known as "Black Madam," fled the room after the victim began having difficulty breathing during the "touch-up" injection with silicone and Krazy Glue. A witness who claimed to be in the room testified she was the one who called paramedics for Aderotimi, the AP reported.
"She just kept saying she has chest pains, she has chest pains," said Scheffee Wilson, who said she referred the victim to Windslowe. "I was there all night. I was the one who called the ambulance."
That's when Windslowe fled the room, the witness said. The defendant called Wilson a liar in open court.
It wasn't until months later when Windslowe was tracked down, the AP reported. During that time, the defendant said she was in France and went without checking her phone or email because she was trying to ignore "transphobic" people.
According to two of her former customers, Windslowe presented herself as a nurse or a plastic surgeon's assistant. Those clients paid up to $2,000 per injection and now fear they will suffer health problems in the future.
Windslowe's lawyer, however, said she would not have performed the injections on herself if she did not think they were safe.
"Everyone was calling me the 'Michelangelo of buttocks injections," Windslowe told the judge, the AP reported. "God's blessed my hands with everything I touch. I make lots of money, in lots of ways."
Windslowe faces up to 40 years in prison on the murder charge alone.
