🚨 “How could they even THINK of putting my daughter in a room with HIM?”

Anna Kepner’s heartbroken biological mom just broke her silence — and she’s FURIOUS.

She never wanted Anna on that cruise. She was never even told about it. And now she’s learned the 18-year-old cheerleader was forced to share a cabin — and a bunk bed — with the 16-year-old stepbrother who FBI cameras allegedly show was the ONLY person going in and out before her daughter was found strangled and hidden under the bed.

“Completely inappropriate.” “Dangerous.” “They knew he had issues.”

Heather Wright says red flags were screaming for months — creepy behavior, obsession, even a kni-fe — yet her ex-husband and his new wife put them together anyway.

Now one child is de-ad, the other is the prime sus-pect, and the mom who was kept in the dark is asking the question burning across the internet: How did NO ONE see this coming?

Full bombshell interview inside — you’ll be speechless.

The biological mother of slain 18-year-old Anna Kepner has unleashed a torrent of fury and grief, publicly questioning why her daughter was ever placed in the same cruise ship cabin — and on the same bunk bed — as the 16-year-old stepbrother now believed to be the only person caught on camera entering and exiting the room before Anna was found strangled and stuffed under a bed.

In her first in-depth interview since the November 7 homicide aboard Carnival Horizon, Heather Wright told NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield on Wednesday night that the sleeping arrangement was “completely inappropriate from the start” and that she had no idea the trip was even happening until she read about her daughter’s death online.

“I was never informed about the cruise. Not once,” Wright said, voice cracking. “If I had known they were putting an 18-year-old girl in a room to sleep literally feet away from a 16-year-old boy who had already shown obsessive behavior toward her… I would have lost my mind. How could any parent think that was okay?”

Wright says multiple people had warned Christopher Kepner and his new wife, Shauntel Hudson Kepner, about the stepbrother’s fixation on Anna — including a disturbing 3 a.m. incident nine months earlier when Anna’s then-boyfriend watched on FaceTime as the boy allegedly climbed on top of a sleeping Anna. The teen also reportedly carried a large knife and had made Anna uncomfortable on several occasions, according to friends and Wright herself.

“Anna told me she didn’t feel safe around him sometimes,” Wright revealed. “She downplayed it because she didn’t want to ruin the ‘blended family’ thing, but she told me. And nothing was done.”

The sleeping setup on the Carnival Horizon has become a focal point of outrage. Court records and family statements confirm Anna shared Cabin 2416 with her 14-year-old biological brother and the 16-year-old stepbrother. Photos from the cruise posted before the tragedy even show the tight quarters: one queen bed and a bunk bed pulled down from the wall — meaning Anna and the stepbrother were likely just a few feet apart every night.

“Think about that,” Wright said, fighting back tears. “My daughter is dead, hidden under a bed, strangled… and the last person seen on video going in and out of that room is the same boy she had to sleep next to. How does any responsible adult look at that arrangement and say ‘Yeah, this is fine’?”

Wright says she was deliberately kept out of the loop about the November 7–13 Caribbean cruise — a “family bonding” trip that included Anna’s father, stepmother, three step-siblings, and paternal grandparents. Christopher Kepner and Wright have been estranged for years, and Wright claims her parental rights were limited after a contentious custody arrangement.

“I found out my child was dead because Google alerted me,” she said. “That’s how I learned. Not a phone call. Google.”

Since the homicide ruling was made public on November 24, Wright has been poring over every detail released — and the cabin arrangement has become her breaking point.

“Anna was modest. She was a cheerleader, yes, but she was also a good girl who went to Christian school. She shouldn’t have been changing clothes, sleeping, waking up with a teenage boy in the room who wasn’t her brother by blood and who had already crossed lines,” Wright told Banfield. “Common sense says separate the teenagers by gender. Period.”

Sources close to the investigation confirm to Fox News Digital that FBI agents have repeatedly asked family members about the sleeping arrangements, the relationships between the teens, and why no adults intervened despite obvious tension.

Anna’s paternal grandparents, Jeffrey and Barbara Kepner — who were also on the cruise — have stopped short of criticizing the room assignments directly but admitted to ABC News that “looking back, maybe things should have been different.” Barbara Kepner previously told agents the surveillance footage was devastating: “He was the only one coming and going from that room.”

Meanwhile, stepmother Shauntel Hudson Kepner has defended the arrangements in court filings related to her ongoing custody war, insisting through her attorney that the teens “were just like brother and sister — two peas in a pod” and that ship security footage shows “absolutely no inappropriate behavior” in public areas.

But Wright isn’t buying it.

“Stop calling him her brother,” she fired back. “He’s not. He’s her stepmother’s son. There’s a difference, especially when that boy is obsessed with the girl he’s now suspected of killing.”

The fury has spilled across social media, where the hashtag #JusticeForAnna has trended for days. Thousands of commenters are zeroing in on the cabin setup, with many asking the same question Wright posed on national TV: How was this ever allowed?

Former FBI profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole, appearing on NewsNation after Wright’s interview, said blended-family sleeping arrangements on vacations are a “known risk factor” when tension or fixation exists.

“You have forced proximity, alcohol available in international waters, and teens with developing impulse control,” O’Toole said. “When adults ignore warning signs — obsession, boundary-crossing, weapons — and then put those teens in the same private space for days… you’re rolling the dice with someone’s life.”

Carnival Cruise Line has declined to comment on specific cabin assignments, citing the active FBI investigation, but a spokesperson reiterated that room configurations are chosen by guests at booking and that the line follows all maritime safety protocols.

As Christopher Kepner prepares to testify under subpoena in the Hudson custody case on November 28, Wright says she just wants one thing from her ex-husband: the truth.

“Tell the judge why you thought it was okay to put my little girl in that room,” she said. “Tell the world why no one protected her when she was literally sleeping next to the person who may have taken her life.”

Anna’s cremation took place earlier this week. Heather Wright says she wasn’t told the date or location.

“She was my baby,” Wright whispered at the end of the interview. “And they took away my chance to keep her safe… twice.”