Hannah Kobayashi says she wasn’t aware of media reaction to disappearance

Hawaii woman was reported missing in November, sparking international search that ended with her safe return

Hannah Kobayashi had been “unaware of everything that was happening in the media” after the 30-year-old Hawaii native’s disappearance prompted her family to report her missing in November, setting off an international search, she reportedly wrote in a statement following her safe return.

“I am still processing it all,” Kobayashi said in the statement, which her aunt Larie Pidgeon distributed to media outlets including NBC News. “My focus now is on my healing, my peace and my creativity.”