Casey Anthony has claimed she was 'working - not partying' when she was photographed taking part in a hot body contest and in nightclubs after her daughter Caylee's 2008 disappearance.
Anthony, 36, became known as the most hated mom in America after her two-year-old daughter Caylee vanished in June 2008.
It took her another 31 days to call 911 and report the child missing, during which time she was seen partying in nightclubs and hanging out with friends.
Caylee's remains were eventually found near her family's home in December 2008.
Casey was sensationally acquitted of murder in 2011, and has since lived quietly in Florida, working as an assistant for a criminal investigator.
Now, in a new docuseries that will air on Peacock on November 29, she addresses the trial and Caylee's death for the first time, claiming her father George is responsible and that he wanted to pin it on her to hide the fact he'd been sexually abusing Caylee.
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Casey Anthony is shown on June 20, 2008 - four days after she says she last saw Caylee alive 0 taking part in a hot body contest at the Fusion Nightclub in Orlando. She claims now it was for 'work', not fun, and that she thought Caylee was with her father George
Anthony, shown at another party, insists she believed Caylee was alive until December 2008, when her daughter's remains were found
Two-year-old Caylee Anthony vanished on June 16, 2008. Her family didn't report her missing until July 15, 2008. No one has ever been convicted of her murder
Casey has long claimed that George abused her when she was a girl - an explosive allegation which he has always denied.
In the docuseries, Casey defends her shocking behavior between June 16, 2008 - the day she last saw Caylee alive - and July 15, 2008, when the family finally reported her missing.
All of the photos that people show of me out in those 31 days, I wasn’t partying. You don’t see drinks in my hand. I was there actually workingShe insists that while the media and the world thought she was 'partying' when she was photographed taking part in a hot body contest in a bar, she was in fact helping her nightclub promoter boyfriend work.
She maintains that she thought Caylee was alive, that her father George was keeping her captive and that he was instructing her to pretend everything was OK.
‘I just tried to be as normal as I could...that was part of the main instruction from my dad – be as normal as possible. I couldn’t show that there was anything going on.
'All of the photos that people show of me out in those 31 days, I wasn’t partying. You don’t see drinks in my hand. I was there actually working. I was helping Tony [the boyfriend] promote. During the 31 says, I genuinely believed Caylee was alive. My father kept telling me she was OK. I just had to keep following his instructions.
'I just knew I had to do what he wanted me to do. Just do what he wants. It worked before, do it now. I did what I needed to do to survive.'
She claims that her father sexually abused her when she was a girl, sneaking into her room to rape her at night between the ages of eight and 12, and that he would smother her with a pillow if she tried to refuse his advances.
In the docuseries, she suggests that this is how he killed Caylee on June 16, 2008, while she was taking a nap at the family's home.
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Casey speaks out in a new docuseries that will air on Peacock on November 29. It is her first on-camera interview since her 2011 acquittal
Casey's father George is pictured yesterday in Orlando. Casey claims he killed Caylee and was sexually abusing her
Casey claims she went for a nap with her daughter and was awoken to her father 'shaking' her and asking her where Caylee was.
Moments later, she said her father appeared with Caylee's limp, wet body in his arms.
Casey claims her father told her it was 'OK' and that Caylee would be 'fine'. He walked away with Caylee, and Casey went to her boyfriend's home, she said.
For 31 days, she believed her daughter was alive, she said.
'He would tell me she is fine - you guys will be reunited soon. That's what sticks with me. I would ask if he knew where she was and he would just tell me she was safe. When you're afraid of another human being and you are conditioned to do and say what they tell you to do. At the time, I wanted to believe him.
'I regret every day that I didn't come forward about what he did to me. I regret every day of not telling my mom, I wish it was a simple explanation but nothing about trauma is.
'I was convinced she was OK until December of 2008 (when her body was found).'
George was never arrested in connection with the child's disappearance and death. He testified for the State of Florida, telling a jury how he smelled the odor of a dead body in Casey's car weeks after Caylee vanished.
George also vehemently denied his daughter's sexual abuse allegations.
At the trial, he was forced to submit a DNA sample to disprove her attorney's suggestion that he might have even been Caylee's biological father.
Casey claims in the docuseries that her brother started groping her when she was 12, after her father stopped sneaking into her room to rape her.
She also claims that Caylee's biological father is a young man who date raped her at a party when she was 18.
Casey continues to live in South Florida, where she set up after her trial with money given to her by her legal defense team.
She works for Pat McKenna, the lead investigator on her team.
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