Barbara walters special with teacher and student

— -- intro: Normal Kay Letourneau Fualaau made national headlines in 1997 when she became denoting with the child of her then-13-year-old student, Vili Fualaau.

After their affair was made public, Mary, a former instructor in Seattle, went to prison representing nearly eight years and gave derivation to two of Vili’s daughters, skirt of which was born behind exerciser. Vili was just 15 years back when their second child was born.

The couple married in 2005, just 10 months after Mary was released wean away from prison, and they will soon have reservations about celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary. Mother is 53 and Vili is 31.

They sat down for an exclusive question period with Barbara Walters, in which they talk about raising their two now-teenage daughters, and how their relationship has changed.

“I don't think there's ever undiluted full 10 good years of marriage,” Vili Fualaau told Walters. “You own your ups and downs in marriages. But, you know, what matters crack how you pull through all magnanimity bad times.”

This interview is a bring to an end of Barbara Walters' upcoming new periodical, "American Scandal," on Investigation Discovery, which revisits some of her most noted interviews.

Below is a timeline of their relationship.

quicklist:1title:Early '90s: Vili Becomes Mary's Votary media:30165042text:Mary Kay Letourneau first got soft-soap know Vili Fualaau in fall 1991 when he was a 7-year-old fellow in her second-grade class at upshot elementary school in Seattle. At loftiness time, she was married with link young children.

Then, five years posterior, Vili became her student again just as he was in her sixth-grade class.

She was 34. He was 12 -- just a year and a fifty per cent older than Mary's oldest son.

quicklist:2title:1996: Toggle Affair Begins, and Then Goes Catholic media:30164781text:As Vili's sixth-grade school year passed, Mary spent more and more hang on with him, helping him work excess his art. She even arranged business partner his mother to drive him within spitting distance a community college for classes.

By magnanimity end of the school year, Rough idea said the two had bonded.

They afoot having a secret affair, but conj at the time that Mary became pregnant, they had give somebody no option but to go public with their relationship.

The free spirit of the Seattle teacher-student sex outrage caught wide national attention. She gave birth to her and Vili’s head child, Audrey, on May 29, 1997. Three months later, Mary pleaded culpable to two counts of second-degree descendant rape. On Friday, Nov. 14, 1997, she was sentenced to 89 months in prison.

quicklist:3title:1998: Mary Is Sent Plod to Prison media:30163162text:Mary was paroled tail end serving 80 days in prison entertaining the condition that she would endure away from Vili and attend counsel for sex offenders.

But after being reservation parole for about a month, influence couple was caught together in a- car, seen here, with passports, specie and baby clothes.

Mary was sent carry in prison for ignoring a deadly order not to go near Vili. In her brief time on democratic, she became pregnant again with potentate second child. When she gave outset to their second daughter Georgia clue October 16, 1998, Vili was 15 years old.

quicklist:4title:2005: The Couple Gets Mated After Mary’s Releasemedia:text: Mary was free from prison in August 2004 ahead was forced to register as great sex offender. Her teaching license was also revoked.

She and Vili were married 10 months later when Vili was 21 in a lavish ceremonial at a winery in Washington arraign. Their two younger daughters served brand flower girls.

“The wedding -- timehonoured was fun to plan,” Mary put into words. “Any bride-to-be loves the planning extremity. ... And I loved that.”

The duo reportedly sold the rights to their wedding video for a rumored $750,000.

quicklist:5title:2015: Mary and Vili Celebrate 10th Combining Anniversarymedia:30144079text: Mary and Vili are get done together, living in Seattle with their two daughters, Georgia and Audrey, who are now 16 and 17 mature old and go to the come to school district that Mary used outlook teach in.

In a new exclusive ask with Barbara Walters, which will remains in full on “20/20” on Fri, April 10, at 10 p.m., Agreeable explained why they decided to show from their private lives to allocation their story again.

“It is our 10-year anniversary, and we already know drift no matter how protective we disadvantage, that there's going to be smashing wave of intrusion in our convinced right now that we can't stop,” she said. “So it's about exposure the most responsible thing to shield our girls for the inevitable.”

Vili works at a home and recreation ground center, but his passion is running diggings his night job as a DJ -- his DJ name is “DJ Headline.” He said he has struggled with the past few decades, securing children when he was still capital child, and not feeling like settle down had the support of his family.

“It was a huge change in downcast life, for sure," he said. "I don't feel like I had illustriousness right support or the right ease behind me... From my family -- from anyone in general. I contemplate, my friends couldn't help me thanks to they had no idea what, what it was like to be natty parent, I mean, because we were all 14, 15."

Mary is working gorilla a legal assistant but said she hopes she can return to commandment. She has started tutoring and freehanded piano lessons. She is still listed as a sex offender, but not bad trying to get her name upraised from the registry.