The young Polish woman who believes she may be Madeline McCann will have her question answered by the "end of this week", according to an investigator. Julia Wendell is waiting on the results of three DNA samples and a genetics test after she claimed to be the British girl.
The 21-year-old recently sparked fears she may have leukaemia after she reportedly said she had been suffering "pain in her bones" and having nosebleeds. The Daily Star reports her initial blood tests came back as "abnormal" according to Dr Fia Johansson, the private investigator and self-professed psychic helping Julia discover her true identity.
Dr Johansson asked viewers on Instagram to "pray" Julia and said further test results would come back any day now. She added: "Julia is waiting for two answers right now. One is her DNA test. A second is her health.
"Both are very stressful, both making her [...] feel very uncomfortable and vulnerable. Please pray for her health. I can't sleep at night. [I pray] please please please, [by the] end of this week, the doctor will say everything's fine and it's just something else."
Dr Johansson previously said Julia had undergone CT and MRI scans, but said she wouldn't learn the results until the doctors had all the information needed to assess Julia's condition.
She said: "If she needs any treatment we will make sure she gets that. She says this is the first time she has experienced love or felt like she belonged in a family." The investigator also issued an update on Julia's DNA results, which she hopes will reveal whether she's Madeleine.
"When the DNA test comes, which I am really badly waiting for and checking every day the status of it, we will match with a DNA test of [Madeleine] McCann," she explained. “[She could also match] anyone else out there looking for their kid that may [be] missing at that time.”
Julia made headlines after she presented evidence suggesting she could be the missing tot, who vanished during a family holiday in Portugal. Her @IAmMadeleineMcCann Instagram account had amassed over one million followers before it was taken down.
Among her evidence is her claim that she looks similar to e-fits predicting what Madeleine would look like today, at age 19, and members of the McCann family. She also says they both have the same rare eye condition – a coloboma in her right eye, which makes the pupil appear misshapen.
Julia claims to have very few memories of her childhood, and Dr Johansson found there were no hospital records in Wroclaw – the city she supposedly grew up in – from the first five years of her life, making her believe Julia was trafficked to Poland as a child.
Despite the supposed evidence, however, experts have been sceptical about Julia's claim. Super-recogniser Simone Malik told the Daily Star she doesn't believe the woman is Madeleine and said the pair don't look alike "at all".
She said: “I believe that this isn’t Madeleine McCann – obviously DNA is the only thing that would prove it. On first impressions, when I looked at Julia Wendell I didn’t see any kind of family resemblance – at all.”
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