The reporter for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel who witnessed her execution saw firsthand Aileen Wuornos‘ deranged mental state. Her final statement was a bizarre and confused admixture of religious, extraterrestrial, and pop culture references. “I’d just like to say I’m sailing with the Rock, and I’ll be back. Like Independence Day with Jesus, June 6, just like the movie, big mother ship and all. I’ll be back,” she muttered into the microphone over her head as she awaited execution. A British documentary filmmaker who had interviewed Wuornos several times confirmed that she suffered from extreme mental disorders. “Every time I met her, she was a different person,” he said.

Wuornos claimed that her grandfather who raised her sexually abused her when she was a teenager, an experience that likely had an influence on her mental and emotional health as an adult. As Entertainment Weekly reports, Maladie has similarly suffered trauma at the hands of the men in her life. Her husband had her committed to an insane asylum. Because of this kind of treatment, Manson told Gizmodo that she doesn’t see Maladie as a villain. “She’s got her objectives, she gets sidetracked at times, but I wonder how much I would fight for justice if I went through what she went through at the hands of the male patriarchy,” she said.