Kayla Mendoza, 21, tweeted '2 drunk 2 care' hours before killing two friends in a drunken wreck in November. In an upcoming interview, she expressed remorse for the fatal crash and said the tweet was directed at her boyfriend.
INSIDE EDITIONKayla Mendoza, who referred to herself as a 'Pothead Princess' on Twitter, spoke to Inside Edition about the Nov. 17 crash that killed two best friends in Florida.
The "Pothead Princess" who tweeted "2 drunk 2 care" before killing two best friends in a wrong-way car crash on a Florida highway is speaking out, saying she's sorry for the devastation she's wrought and doesn't remember anything from the fatal wreck.
"I wish there was something I could say to make up for what happened," Kayla Mendoza told Inside Edition in an interview airing Wednesday night.
"But no matter how many 'sorrys,' apologies, tears I cry — no matter how much I hate myself for what happened, nothing I say will change anything," she said.
The Broward-Palm Beach New Times published excerpts from Mendoza's emotional sit-down.
TWITTERMendoza, of Hallandale Beach, admitted to tweeting ‘2 drunk 2 care’ hours before the crash that killed Kaitlyn Nicole Ferrante and Marisa Caran Catronio, both 21.
Earlier this month, the 21-year-old was hit with a rack of charges, including DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide, for killing Kaitlyn Ferrante and Marisa Catronio, both 21, in a head-on crash on the Sawgrass Expressway on Nov. 17.
Mendoza, who was 20 at the time, had been boozing with co-workers from her T-Mobile sales job and had a blood-alcohol level of 0.15 when she plowed her Hyundai Sonata into Ferrante's Toyota Camry.
The wreck left Mendoza confined to a wheelchair and unable to walk.
FACEBOOKFerrante and Catronio's car was hit head-on by Mendoza's Hyundai Sonata.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, it was revealed she sent a tweet that said "2 drunk 2 care" hours before the crash.
It was just one of scores of tweets Mendoza allegedly sent boasting about her "Pothead Princess" lifestyle.
In the days leading up to wreck, she bragged about her car "permanently" smelling of weed and claimed she was unable to sleep without smoking a "bedtime blunt."
CBS MIAMIMendoza said she didn't remember how she ended up going the wrong way on the Sawgrass Expressway.
In the interview, Mendoza addressed the notorious tweet, saying it was directed at her boyfriend, with whom she'd been fighting.
"It did not mean, 'I'm too drunk to care, I'm going to get in my car now and wherever the hell I end up, that's it,' No." she told the show, according to the New Times.
"It was directed to my boyfriend. That's the only person that it was for."
SUN SENTINELMendoza, above, is wheeled into a Broward County, Fla., jail on April 7. The crash left her unable to walk.
She also said her manager at the T-Mobile store knew she was underage when he brought her out drinking with co-workers at a Mexican restaurant in Coral Springs.
He also was the one who dropped her off at her car back at the store after the crew had finished boozing.
After that, things went black, she said.
"How I ended up on the Sawgrass Expressway, I wish I knew," she said.
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