I just heard Giselle on HLN After Dark, and it was so sad. She really felt rejected by the whole family. I did not catch all of it, but apparently she felt the older girls, including Alexis, rejected her and that the two older girls from Ukraine also were tight together and she felt like an outsider with them. The only one she seemed to feel close to was Ada. I caught only part of the beginning, where I believe she said Linda Cluff (Michele's sister) brought her back from the Ukraine and she lived with her for a time. She said she is on her own now, but "doing ok." One of the guest "jurors" asked her about her feelings about Michele, and she said that after she had been here for two years she no longer felt like part of the family and she said she felt like she was their slave, doing cooking, cleaning, and taking care of Ada.
She said she felt Martin was very fake, that he sometimes seemed to be nice to Michele but she felt that was fake. She said Michele did the best she could trying to get along in the situation. The night before her death, Giselle heard them arguing and Michele saying something about not wanting to deal with whatever it was at the time and wanting to be left alone about it.
The day of Michele's death, Damian picked them all up from school and took them somewhere for several hours and then took them back home. She said no one said anything to her about what happened. She said she finally decided to leave her room and met Martin on the stairs, where he told her her mom was gone and she said he had a funny smile and didn't seem sad. Apparently she thought from the beginning that he had done something and said she felt "weird about the whole thing." She said that later Martin hugged her but she said it was not the sort of hug someone would give another in consolation, but that it was "weird." She also said he had molested her earlier and she told Michele. She said Michele told her not to confront Martin about it because he was "having a bad time." Then Michele took her to a counselor but never spoke to Giselle about it again.
My take on the whole of it is that although it's obvious her time with the MacNeills was so much less than she hoped, and even though she is estranged from the rest of the family, she is saying the same thing as the others - she suspected Martin from the beginning and that he is a fake. When she spoke of him, she could have been any of the other daughters we have heard from, only she is less emotional than they are. She said he controlled everything and everything was his way; Michele had no say. What a sad life.
