Lisa Irwin's Mom, Deborah Bradley, Admits She Was Drunk When Her Baby Vanished (VIDEO)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The mother of a baby who went missing from her Kansas City home two weeks ago says she was drunk when the girl disappeared.

Deborah Bradley told NBC's "Today" show Monday that the night her baby, Lisa Irwin, disappeared she had bought wine and consumed "enough to be drunk."

Bradley says police asked her if she killed Lisa, who was 10 months old when she disappeared Oct. 4. She says she doesn't "think alcohol changes a person enough to do something like that."

During the interview, Bradley broke down in tears, saying that she's afraid police will arrest her.

"If they arrest me, people are going to stop looking for her," Bradley said, "and then I'll never see her again."

Last week, relatives released home videos of Baby Lisa playing with toys and eating while Bradley cooed at her off-camera. The family made the footage available to increase awareness about the case.

Hundreds of state and federal law enforcement officers have been involved in the search for Lisa, but have turned up no evidence pointing to her whereabouts. On Saturday, Missouri Gov. announced that he'd deploy 25 members of the National Guard to join the hunt for Lisa.

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Comments

[justdoodling]

09:02 PM on 10/22/2011

She said she was co-sleeping with the other kid. Co-sleeping can lead to smothering deaths of small children. Maybe she smothered the little girl.

[rcarol]

04:37 AM on 10/20/2011

Another thing... when she was out with her brother buying things at the store, who was watching her 3 kids? An 8-year old isn't mature enough to take care of a 6 year old and a 10-month old baby.

[mother10]

11:38 PM on 10/19/2011

I was drunk when I killed my baby so I don't remember anything, because I was drunk when I did it....cause I was drunk...

[Jarrod Kopping]

10:03 PM on 11/10/2011

Your....your jokeing right?

[linbee50]

06:43 PM on 10/19/2011

Now a new twist....she was drunk. The last time she saw the baby was just after 6pm. Seems to me that a baby needs to be attended to between 6pm and 4am.
All this is odd.

[Jtt]

04:32 PM on 10/21/2011

Yeah it is really strange if you think about it.

[Mark Cobb]

02:28 PM on 10/19/2011

I think she's guilty. If you can find it, watch her interviewed by Jeannine Pirro. She cries as if on cue and then when the next question is asked, it is as if she never shed a tear. Brilliant actress...

[Maerzie]

11:42 AM on 10/19/2011

Drunk?? Sounds more like drugged? Maybe Casey Anthony gave ideas to other people who didn't like their lives. Sorry, but Deborah Bradley just doesn't sound very believable with her crocodile tears!

[Cape May Donna]

07:46 AM on 10/19/2011

Question: Where were her other kids when she was allegedly drunk? When she picked up the box of wine, who was watching her kids? Did she begin drinking as soon as she returned with the wine? No one in the home (the other kids) heard anything? Was the baby actually home when she began drinking? Appears there are more unanswered questions here-its no wonder the parents had access to a top rated defense attorney. Amazing...

[Luci Tomlin]

08:44 PM on 10/19/2011

AND she was "drinking" with a FRIEND! While her daughters father was working! HE doesn't pass the smell test EITHER!

[mother10]

11:40 PM on 10/19/2011

she makes me sick

[carolla7411]

07:39 AM on 10/19/2011

plus they had a dog, usually a dog barks why didn't the dog bark. unless the dog knew that person who took the baby.

[Urfubar12]

11:39 AM on 10/19/2011

What kind of dog does she have? I might have missed it in the article. If its anything like a Golden Retriever they will lick an intruder before they would bark. But, most dogs would surely make some sort of noise.

[mother10]

11:40 PM on 10/19/2011

omg...

[carolla7411]

07:36 AM on 10/19/2011

If the baby was taken from that window looks alittle small for someone to fit through, I think it was either a small person or maybe two people took that baby one standing on the outside and one going into the window, they got the baby and handed the baby thru the window to the other person.

[stanleycorp1]

04:39 AM on 10/19/2011

negligence - the final say - where was the baby when she went to the store to get the wine?

[Treeske]

06:07 PM on 10/18/2011

Another sad case where children are at the mercy of negligent irresponsible people, far too many of these cases. Where are the right to life people in such cases?

[capnamerca]

03:58 PM on 10/24/2011

They only care about fetuses.

[artstnmtn1]

05:29 PM on 10/18/2011

my opinion is if they find the baby dead or alive, an arrest will be swift.

[TAIsabel]

05:22 PM on 10/18/2011

Mmmmm..... sorry but there is the stench of deceit all over this story.

[EmmaBailts]

03:35 PM on 10/18/2011

Anyone knows a website where I could watch the whole Megyn Kelly interview?

[Luci Tomlin]

08:46 PM on 10/19/2011

Go to Foxnews.com archives

[travelinghead]

02:15 PM on 10/18/2011

More faux news propaganda