Hannah Kobayashi has begun to speak out after her mysterious disappearance–and subsequent reappearance–six months ago. Kobayashi reemerged on social media over the weekend to address her father’s death after he took his own life while searching for her. Kobayashi, 31, from Hawaii, was reported missing after failing to get a flight from New York to Los Angeles last November. While her family feared foul play, Kobayashi was found in Mexico in December after what police called a “voluntary disappearance.” Tragically, her father, Ryan Kobayashi, 58, took his own life while in Los Angeles searching for his daughter in November. On Instagram stories, Kobayashi insisted she had missed the media coverage of her disappearance and her father’s death, according to the Daily Mail. Speaking to SF Gate, Kobayashi added that she was prepared to one day tell the full story: “Given my particular situation on the other side of my experience, I understand how some people would choose to cast me in a negative light, but I know who I am, I know my truth and one day, I will share it,” Kobayashi added. “I do believe that we can all learn to be kinder to one another because we never really know what someone else has been through unless we’ve walked in their shoes.”
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