Columbine Killer's Mother Sue Klebold Speaks Out on Her Son, Dylan: "I Prayed That He'd Die"

Over the weekend, families all over the nation, and probably some of the victims of one of the most horrific school massacres listened, and watched as Columbine killer, Dylan Klebold's mother spoke out. Sue Klebold reflected on that tragic day her son, Dylan, and another student, Eric Harris killed 12 of their fellow High School piers, and one teacher, wounding 24 others before killing themselves. The mother actually revealed that she prayed her son would die if he was actually one of the shooters.

April 20, 1999 a day that will never be forgotten for most is a day that Sue Klebold is still dealing with. During an sit down interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer, Klebold said she thinks about the victims, and their families all the time.

"I just remember sitting there and reading about them, all these kids and the teacher," Klebold admitted. "And I keep thinking-- constantly thought how I would feel if it were the other way around and one of their children had shot mine," she revealed. "I would feel exactly the way they did. I know I would. I know I would."

A mother who once called her son "the sunshine boy" because he had such beautiful golden hair broke down in tears while speaking about her son.

"There is never a day that goes by where I don't think of the people that Dylan harmed," she told Sawyer. "You used the word 'harmed,'" Sawyer replied. "I think it's easier for me to say harmed than killed, and it's still hard for me after all this time," Klebold explained. "It is very hard to live with the fact that someone you loved and raised has brutally killed people in such a horrific way."

When learning that her son was probably one of the shooters, Klebold said she remembered praying that the killings would end. "The police were there the helicopters were going over. I remember thinking if this was true, if Dylan was hurting people somehow he has to be stopped. At that moment I prayed that he would die...that God stop this, just make this stop don't let him hurt anybody."

 “I felt that I was a good mom… That he would, he could talk to me about anything,” Klebold said. “Part of the shock of this was that learning that what I believed and how I lived and how I parented was-- an invention in my own mind. That it, it was a completely different world that he was living in.”

Klebold's 20/20 interview was the first television appearance she made since the Columbine High School shooting. Klebold has also released a new memoir called: “A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy." Her memoir was released on Monday, February 15.