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Published 16:13 20 May 2026 GMT
Mackenzie Shirilla's mom, Natalie, gave a full victim impact speech during her daughter's trial, which was cut short in the Netflix documentary.
The Crash was only released on Friday (May 15), but the true crime doc ranks at No.1 on the streaming platform.
It covers the murder case surrounding Mackenzie Shrilla, then 17, who was found guilty of killing two men after intentionally crashing her car into a brick wall at over 100 mph (160 km/h).
She was convicted of murder in 2023, a year after committing the crime, as a judge determined that she had crashed the car on purpose in a premeditated murder.
Shirilla was convicted of 12 felony charges and sentenced to two concurrent life sentences, with the possibility of parole after 15 years.
However, viewers may have noticed that one part of the documentary was cut short - Natalie Shrilla's speech.
The true crime documentary includes a short clip of Natalie, with the 30-second clip being cut from a full six-minute speech.
She spoke about her daughter's social media use, her Halloween outing, and other topics, which were missed in the documentary aired by millions.
Here is the statement in full.
“I just want to say to the families that I am broken, lost, and my heart hurts for everyone, okay. Davion was her good friend, and Dom was the love of her life, and he was part of our family, okay. I’m just so sorry that this happened, and we are heartbroken," she began.
The mom continued: “Your honour, this was a terrible, tragic nightmare that she has no memory of, and she will never emotionally or physically recover from it. She almost died too, and we ask you, please do not run the sentences consecutively because it was family, and we all love each other.
“That morning of the accident, I got a phone call that there was an accident. I didn’t know who was in the car, the names had not been confirmed yet… I called Dom over and over and over again, but he didn’t answer the phone. I called his mom, and she didn’t answer the phone either.
“Then she called and was like, ‘What do you mean, my son is dead?’ and I was like, ‘We loved him so much', and we hung up the phone,” she stated.
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Natalie added: “That post, I commented on that because somebody had called her a murderer.
“He’s not a murderer, she didn’t even have her phone at that point, the police still had. Not because of the modelling opportunity, who cares about that?”
The mom then claimed: “For three months after the accident, she would only wear his clothes. She would only eat the snacks he ate, and she would only listen to the music he wrote. She was lying in bed for three months crying, there was a shrine of him next to her with photos and things that he liked.
”Her friends asked her if she wanted to go trick-or-treating for Halloween, and it was at OU. And she didn’t even want to go, she couldn’t even walk yet, barely.
“So I was like ‘Baby, please go. It’s Halloween, you’ve been lying for three months crying, and you have just a moment of fun’. She just needed a second of fun after losing her whole world. That was us,” Natalie concluded.
This exchange was included in the documentary, as the judge interjected to point out: “I’m hearing an awful lot about your daughter; I’m not hearing much about the two dead people.”
Natalie replied: “Dominic, okay, I’m asking you for leniency because this was a tragic accident that she does not remember. Davion, he’s a new friend, I’m so sorry.”
“What does that mean? His life is worthless?” the judge asked.
Natalie quickly backtracked, claiming that all involved "loved each other," which the judge highlighted was "part of the problem."
"It was a problem when they all got into a car together, and two of them ended up dead," the judge pointed out, and while Natalie called it a "tragic accident," he disagreed.
