By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-06 19:02:50 | Updated at 2025-01-08 02:07:30
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The ex-girlfriend of Las Vegas Cybertruck bomber Matthew Livelsberger says she broke down sobbing when the FBI showed her footage of the fiery blast outside the Trump International Hotel.
Alicia Arritt, who broke up with Livelsberger in 2021, began crying on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday as she recalled her final texts with her old flame days before the violence and described weeping when shown video of his last act New Year’s Day.
“They started to show me the video of him and the Cybertruck, my whole heart broke for him,” Arritt said through tears.
She cried during the interview when talking about their last texts, too, in which he revealed his worsening depression before he took his life in the explosion.
“That he was so broken that he got to that place — I failed him. We all failed him,” the shattered ex said.
Arritt said the 37-year-old Army soldier did not say anything during their recent short-lived chats that suggested he would take his own life in the attack, which also injured seven others.
Livelsberger, who was married and had a toddler, reached out to Arritt on Dec. 29 when he was in Denver, days after he left his Colorado Springs home because his wife confronted him over his alleged cheating.
In those texts, the Green Beret touted that he had just rented a Tesla Cybertruck and that he felt like “Batman or Halo,” referring to the superhero character and video game franchise.
After her ex’s fiery suicide, Arritt began thinking back to their days as a couple, when Livelsberger opened up about his depression while serving in the military, including one text in 2018 when he claimed to be at his worst, she said.
“I have been spiraling down the last week or so. Sometimes I get so hopeless and depressed… By far the worst of my life,” Livelsberger wrote to Arritt.
The ex-girlfriend, who said Livelsberger was likely suffering from PTSD, told “Good Morning America” that the loss of his fellow soldiers always weighed heavily on him, something that was revealed in one of the notes the former soldier left behind.
“Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took,” Livelsberger wrote of his attack.
In the notes, Livelsberger claimed his suicide was not a terrorist attack, but “a wake up call” to the US, whose citizens “only pay attention to spectacles and violence.
“We are being led by weak and feckless leadership who only serve to enrich themselves,” he wrote according to authorities.
“We are the United States of America, the best country people to ever exist! But right now we are terminally ill and headed toward collapse,” he added.
Officials said Livelsberger rented a Cybertruck through the Turo app and made his way to Vegas, where he parked in front of the Trump hotel and detonated explosives stashed in the trunk as he shot himself in the head.
Police said they are still reviewing the immense data found on Livelsberger’s cell phone, adding that investigators are working to gain access to a second phone and a laptop.
