records show otherwise - 500 calls between dalia and mohammed in the days leading up to dalia's arrest. >> she was baited, enticed, and entrapped. >> reporter: at her new trial, dalia says there will be one radical change. >> you're prepared to take the witness stand? >> i am. >> and testify in your own defense? >> mm-hmm. >> and to handle all that cross-examination? >> i am. >> let me know when she's going. i'd love to see this. >> did you ever love mike dippolito? >> i married him because i loved him. >> and now? >> now i wish i never would have met him. >> oh, i feel the same way. i wish -- i wish i would have made a left, not a right. trust me. >> dalia dippolito's new trial is scheduled to begin this may. so put yourself in that jury. do you buy her explanation that the tape was essentially an acting reel or a murder plot that went south? let us know on our facebook page

20/20 about the charges against her. >> did you want your husband dead? >> no, absolutely not. >> did you hire a hit man to kill your husband? >> no. >> reporter: because it is a pre-trial interview, her newly hired high profile lawyers, mark eiglarsh and brian claypool, wouldn't let her talk about certain parts of the case, in particular, those seemingly damning videotapes. >> wipe my -- prints off >> how do you explain what we have all seen and heard on those videotapes? >> i'd like to be able to explain that to you right now, but i can't because the attorneys legally have told me that we're saving that for our day in court. >> how damaging are these tapes to your client? >> they are damaging, cause people have formed opinions. >> reporter: her lawyers have an explanation for those tapes. >> our job in the second trial is to provide the proper context for the jury to see that this is not really what it looks like. >> reporter: he says you can't understand the tapes without