Amy Bradley's ex-girlfriend breaks silence on Netflix doc after speaking out for first time in 27 years
Amy Bradley’s ex-girlfriend has broken her silence on Netflix’s new documentary in a heartbreaking blog post.
This follows her speaking out for the first major time publicly about Amy’s disappearance 28 years ago.
Amy disappeared off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship on March 24, 1998.
Shannon ‘Kat’ Lovelace spoke in Netflix’s AMY BRADLEY IS MISSING about how she had met Amy at Longwood University in 1994. She described how, after a feeling between the pair had ‘started to evolve’, Amy had kissed her, and the two had dated.
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Amy’s sexuality, presented by her friends as a core point of friction between her and her family, has not been discussed in any previous coverage of her disappearance.
Fans watching were shocked to discover this in watching the documentary, claiming it is a major factor that changes how they see the case.
Kat described how she had ‘never seen someone as close to their family as Amy was’ and stated that she was Amy’s girlfriend when she came out to her family as a lesbian.
Kat stated they were ‘not happy’, claiming that Amy’s father Ron wrote a three-page letter where he made his feelings on their relationship very clear.
She stated this outlined all the ways he was disappointed, claiming it put strain on their relationship and later causing them to break up after two years.
Speaking in a blogpost on Substack, Kat recounted how she had gone to New York for the interview alongside other friends of Amy’s where they reunited for the first time in several years.
She said of the opportunity to speak in the documentary: “For years, I wasn’t part of the story—not publicly, anyway. But maybe now was the time to change that.
“Maybe this was the only chance I’d have to share who she really was—the Amy behind the headlines. The one I knew. The one I loved.”
Describing the production process, she revealed that the production team did ‘everything they could to help us open up’ and ‘wanted to know Amy’.
Despite hours of interviews, they used just a minute or two of footage in the final edit.
She went on to add in a sad admission: “That trip last summer—the interviews, the reconnection, the long nights with old friends—it was healing and heartbreaking all at once.
“We laughed. We cried. We remembered. We talked about Amy.
“Before we left, we got matching tattoos. A simple mark for friends, Longwood & Amy.”
One aspect of the post in particular caught the interest of viewers of the documentary; a line in which she said she worried sharing her story would ‘hurt her family’.
Whilst Amy’s family have long stated they accepted her for her sexuality, friends and ex-girlfriends have painted a more complicated story.
One comment on Reddit about the Substack and Kat’s Netflix interview read: “She’s the only one whose story I felt depicted a realistic version of Amy.”
AMY BRADLEY IS MISSING is available to watch on Netflix now.
Topics: Amy Bradley, Documentaries, Netflix, Royal Caribbean, Sex and Relationships, TV, TV and Film, True Crime
Michael Slavin