SAMANTHA TAYLOR TELLS DEBORA PATTA: “THERE WERE TWO TIMES WHERE I DID HIDE HIS GUN FROM HIM”  

TRISH TAYLOR TELLS PATTA: “I BEGGED HIM ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS TO GO FOR COUNSELING - AND HE JUST NEVER DID”

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Olympian Oscar Pistorius was “very controlling” and had an obsession with guns, former girlfriend Samantha Taylor told CBS News correspondent Debora Patta in an interview for 48 HOURS: “Blade Runner: The Verdict” be broadcast tonight, Sept. 12, 2014 (8:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Taylor dated Pistorius for two years until the sprinter began seeing model Reeva Steenkamp, who Pistorius shot dead in Feb. 2013.

At first, Pistorius was “very charming and respectful,” Taylor told Patta. However, after three months Taylor said she noticed he got very agitated quickly at things that usually didn’t anger people.

“He was very controlling,” Taylor said. “He always wanted to know where I was and who I was with. If he didn’t believe me, he would phone my family.”

Pistorius, Taylor said, “would ask me to send photos of what I’m wearing and the person I’m sitting next to – he would think I’m out partying.”

Taylor’s mother, Trish Taylor, said Pistorius’ actions were “total manipulation” and “very abusive.”

Pistorius, a double amputee who drew the world’s attention at the Olympics, was tried for the murder of Steenkamp, a beautiful model and reality show star, who was shot dead on Feb. 14, 2013, in the bathroom of the runner’s home. Prosecutors maintained he shot her in a fit of rage, while Pistorius said he fired his gun through the bathroom door at what he thought was an intruder.

Both Samantha and Trish Taylor were concerned with Pistorius’ ties to guns.  “He definitely had an obsession with guns,” Samantha said. “So, he was always at the shooting range, always with his boys, either racing cars or shooting.”

Over time, Samantha said, she got used to Pistorius having a gun around, but admits there were times she feared for her life. “There were two times where I did hide his gun from him,” Taylor said, because she was afraid.

Trish Taylor said that Pistorius depended on her for emotional support, even calling her on the day he was to leave for the Olympics.  She told Patta she believed he never got over losing his mother.

“He didn't wanna go,” Trish Taylor recalled of the conversation. “The day he was meant to fly, he phoned me and he said, ‘I'm not going.  I'm not going to the Olympics.’ And then he was just sobbing and sobbing and sobbing.”

Additional excerpts of the interview are below:

BY THE SUMMER OF 2012, WITH OSCAR’S HISTORIC RACE AGAINST ABLE-BODIED OLYMPIANS LOOMING, THE PRESSURE MOUNTED, OSCAR LEANED MORE AND MORE ON TRISH FOR SUPPORT.

TRISH TAYLOR: He started calling me and crying on the phone. Sometimes it was daily.

DEBORA PATTA: Did you suggest he goes and seek - has therapy?

TRISH TAYLOR: Yeah, a lot of times. I begged him on numerous occasions to go for counseling.  And he always promised to.  And he just never did.

DEBORA PATTA: What did he need help for?

TRISH TAYLOR: His behavior.  His everything.  You know, he had - I don't think he ever - came to terms with losing his mom.  I think it was a huge thing in his life.  I think he was - in so many ways, a little boy that needed to be cared for.  And he had never grown out of that.  And in other ways, he could conquer the world.

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JUST BEFORE OSCAR WAS TO LEAVE FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON HE MADE A STUNNING CALL TO TRISH.

TRISH TAYLOR: He didn't wanna go.  He- the day he was meant to fly, he phoned me and he said, ‘I'm not going.  I'm not going to the Olympics.’  And then he was just sobbing and sobbing and sobbing.

DEBORA PATTA: So he was - he was quite - childlike.

TRISH TAYLOR: Very childlike.  Very, very childlike.  Yeah.

DEBORA PATTA: Why did you stay with him for so long?

SAMANTHA TAYLOR: I think beyond our imperfections and our fights and arguments, we loved each other so much.

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DEBORA PATTA: What were your thoughts when -  when Reeva Steenkamp was shot and killed?

TRISH TAYLOR: I was devastated

DEBORA PATTA: Did you believe his story, that he shot her, thinking she was an intruder?

TRISH TAYLOR: It’s so difficult to say.  All I can say is that by the time Oscar was out of our lives, I believed nothing he said anymore.  Absolutely nothing.  

DEBORA PATTA Did you - did you think when you heard that it was Reeva who was shot, that it could've been you?

SAMANTHA TAYLOR: Yeah, definitely.

48 HOURS: “Blade Runner: The Verdict” is produced by James Stolz, Josh Gelman,Kim Kennedy, Marcelena Spencer, and Sarah Carter. Marlon Disla, Ken Blum, Michael Vele, Phil Tangel, David Spungen, Mike Mongulla, and George Baluzy are the editors.Allen Alter is the senior coordinating producer. Peter Schweitzer, Anthony Batson and Al Briganti are the senior producers. Susan Zirinsky is the senior executive producer.

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