Party Time, At Last! Amanda Berry Downed Strawberry Daiquiris & Danced During First Major Public Appearance Since Escape From House Of Horrors
July 29 2013, Published 4:33 p.m. ET
Drinking frozen strawberry daiquiris and dancing with friends at an outdoor concert sounds like the perfect summer night for any 27-year-old girl. But for Cleveland's Amanda Berry, it was a long time coming.
Kidnapped in 2003 at the age of 16, Berry spent ten years in captivity at Ariel Castro's house of horrors until her escape in May. On Saturday, she began to make up for all of the simple pleasures she'd missed out on through the years by partying at Rover Fest in Cleveland, and only Breaking Celebrity News has all of the exclusive details.
Amanda's appearance at the music festival was a huge surprise to everyone -- even the concert's organizer, local DJ Rover of Rover's Morning Glory show on 100.7 WMMS FM.
"I was just as surprised as everyone else!" Rover tells Radar.
"I had sort of just made some comments on air a couple of times saying Berry and her fellow captives Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight should come out and party at RoverFest to make up for all the years they lost. We never really made any effort to reach out to them though."
Then, about 6 p.m. on Saturday, "Three people on my security team came up to me and said 'Amanda Berry is here. She says that you invited her,'" Rover explains.
"I thought they were joking! But they pointed to her and she was just out in the crowd, enjoying the concert. I was like, 'Bring her backstage!'"
Once there, "She was very friendly, very polite," Rover says. "Like any normal girl."
"I asked her if I could get her a beer or anything and she said she would like something fruity," he reveals. "We were serving frozen Island Squeeze strawberry daiquiris, so I had someone go get some for her."