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(NewsNation) — An ex-boyfriend of Celeste Rivas Hernandez says she was not successful a bully concern astatine location earlier she began moving distant successful aboriginal 2024.
"He said that she would accidental that her parents were truly mean, and that she didn't similar being astatine home," TMZ's Charles Latibeaudiere told "Banfield" aft Damien Hernandez and his mother, Jamie, spoke to the outlet Tuesday.
Damien Hernandez, 15, who dated Celeste successful mediate school, revealed that erstwhile helium archetypal connected with Celeste, she was benignant and looking for thing serious.
Hernandez pointed retired that Celeste talked astir moving distant from home, adjacent making jokes astir it successful school. Asked by NewsNation's Ashleigh Banfield if Hernandez ever indicated immoderate maltreatment was going on, Latibeaudiere said Damien said no.
"It was conscionable much astir her not liking the situation that she was in," helium said.
Celeste Rivas Hernandez had been missing earlier her death
The Los Angeles Times reported the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said Hernandez was reported missing astatine slightest 3 times successful 2024.
Most recently, Hernandez was reported missing successful April 2024. Her assemblage was discovered implicit a twelvemonth aboriginal successful the trunk of D4vd’s Tesla.
Celeste’s mother also reportedly said that earlier the teen went missing, she was dating idiosyncratic named David.
It remains unclear if Celeste was surviving with D4vd astatine immoderate constituent portion she was missing.
Video showed Celeste successful shouting lucifer months aft disappearance
Video was recorded astatine the location of Celeste’s parents successful Lake Elsinore, California, precisely a twelvemonth earlier her body was recovered successful the trunk of a car belonging to the rising euphony prima D4vd.
Neighbors who provided the video to the outlet accidental that it shows her arguing with radical who ostensibly had pulled a prank connected her. Celeste was seen yelling and swearing astatine individuals she believed had played a prank connected her parents’ home.
"When she walked away, the neighbors were benignant of like, 'Hey, wasn't that the miss ... who was connected the posters?'" Latibeaudiere said.
"They'd seen the posters up. They said that her household members did locomotion astir municipality that summer, showing everyone the poster, saying, 'Have you seen Celeste?' So it was successful their heads," helium added.
By the dates themselves, the video seems to beryllium that Celeste visited her household astatine slightest erstwhile aft she ran distant for the past time.
