Kouri Richins has learned her fate two months after being convicted of killing her husband Eric Richins.
On May 13, the children’s author was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for Eric’s murder, which prosecutors said was enacted through Kouri lacing his cocktail with fentanyl.
During her sentencing, Kouri addressed her and Eric’s three young sons, telling them, “Be like your dad.”
“The one thing I need you boys to know is that I did not abandon you,” she read from a prepared statement, per The Salt Lake Tribune. “Regardless of what anyone tells you, I would never ever leave you boys. And I am so sorry that even for one second you think that I did.”
Kouri also admitted there were moments in her past that she was “not proud of.”
“Nobody is all good or all bad,” the 35-year-old added, per NBC News. “We are not defined by our best or our worst moments.”
