The woman who last saw missing yogi Nancy Ng before she vanished in a Guatemalan lake broke her silence on Wednesday, insisting through her lawyer that she warned Ng not to jump into “rough” water before she was lost again.
Christina Blazek crossed paths with Ng while the two were kayaking on Lake Atitlan on October 19, Blazek’s attorney, G. Christopher Gardner told ABC 7 Los Angeles.
The lawyer also defended Blazek amid criticism that he remained tight-lipped as Ng’s loved ones searched for information about the disappearance.
“To say my client didn’t do everything he could is untrue,” Gardner said.
Ng, of Monterey Park, was on a yoga retreat in the Central American country when she and Blazek started talking to each other at the lake.
“My client is not going anywhere with Ng,” Gardner told the station. “They happen to each other in the lake.”
During their conversation, Ng, a fitness enthusiast, told Blazek he wanted to swim in the lake.
“He was trying to tell her not to swim because it was rough out there and there was a good current,” Gardner said.
Nancy Ng was last seen in Lake Atitlan on Oct 19. ABC 7
After Ng jumped in, his kayak was pushed away. Blazek tried to retrieve it by putting one foot in his kayak and the other in Ng’s, Gardner alleged.
“And try to get back to him… and get close to him,” she told ABC 7 LA.
“And then apparently, he lost the kayak again and he turned around to go back to get the kayak back, and when he turned around, Ms Ng was gone.”
Blazek, a San Bernardino County public defender, asked for help, and then talked to local authorities about where they should look at the lake, he added.
Blazek’s attorney, G. Christopher Gardner, told ABC 7 Los Angeles that his client and Ng “went into each other at the lake.” ABC 7
“He was told he needed to talk to the police, and he went and gave a full statement to the Guatemalan police,” Gardner said.
“They told him there was nothing that could be done. Apparently the lake is famous for people drowning on it.”
Local prosecutors said earlier this month that Ng drowned after he jumped into a lake, according to ABC News.
The desperate Ng family has been asking Blazek for answers but has been met with silence before Wednesday’s update.
Ng is on a yoga retreat.ABC 7
“If it was what he said and it was an accident, I don’t understand how he could choose to leave my family in the dark for almost four weeks, and not just say that from the beginning,” Ng’s sister Nicky told ABC 7 LA.
Gardner said Blazek needed time to himself after going through a “traumatic experience.”
Ng’s family in an Oct. 31 email to Blazek begged him to talk to them, and then warned if he refused to cooperate they would pursue the matter, the station reported.
“I hope he can understand that we don’t have an account of what happened because he was the only person who saw what happened, and it wasn’t included in the report,” said Nicky Ng.
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