“He knows that I would burn this world down to find him and that I wouldn’t be scared of anything or anybody,” Bridgette Pelletier says of son Giovanni
NEED TO KNOW
- Giovanni Pelletier’s mom says he has been missing since Aug. 1, when he was picked up by some relatives
- Bridgette Pelletier says one of his last messages now haunts her amid his bizarre disappearance
- The eldest of Bridgette’s five children, Giovanni has a heart of gold, she says
An 18-year-old from North Carolina vanished last week during an out-of-state trip to reconnect with some relatives, according to his mom — and she says one of his last messages now haunts her amid his bizarre disappearance.
Giovanni Pelletier traveled to Florida in late July with his mother, Bridgette Pelletier, her fiancé, Jeremy Brown, and Giovanni’s four siblings to visit a relative who was completing chemotherapy, Bridgette tells PEOPLE.
Giovanni had been looking forward to the trip: After he turned 18 in April, he expressed an interest in getting to know his biological father’s family in Florida, where he was born and had lived until about age 4, when he moved with his mom to North Carolina. (His parents were never married.)…