Kate McCann broke down in tears as she told Oprah Winfrey that she "did not recognise" her missing daughter Madeleine from a computer generated impression of how she would look now.
Liverpool-born Kate, 41, and husband Gerry, 40, will appear on the US chat queen’s show, which will be broadcast next week.
May 3rd marks the second anniversary of the day Maddie vanished on holiday in Priai da Luz, Portugal, just before her fourth birthday.
Computer-enhanced images of Maddie aged five in a blue dress flashed were flashed onto a giant screen as the show was recorded in front of a studio audience in Chicago.
The pictures were created by experts at Virginia’s National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.
Audience member Chris Myers, 43, who watched the live show last week said: “Kate told Oprah she felt Madeleine was still alive.
“Oprah and Kate were very emotional. Kate broke down on two occasions."
The show comes amidst new claims that Maddie was probably abducted as she went looking for her parents.
Criminologist Mark Williams-Thomas said it was unlikely that an abductor entered Maddie’s holiday flat in Praia da Luz.
Mr Williams-Thomas said Maddie may have been seized by an opportunistic paedophile as she ventured out in search of her parents, who were dining at a nearby tapas bar.
He believes Maddie arranged her toys on her bed and left apartment 5a at the Ocean Club through an unlocked patio door. And he believes an abductor would not have arranged the toys as they would have wanted to escape quickly.
Others believe Maddie could have arranged her toys before an abductor entered the room and took her.
However, ex-detective Mr Williams-Thomas, who has studied 10,000 Portuguese police files, says that a paedophile entering the flat may have chosen to take one of Maddie’s younger and more defenceless twins Sean and Amelie who were asleep.
He said: “Based on case file evidence it is more likely she was abducted after she had left the apartment.”
The McCanns have launched a hotline and web interface for information and have started a new poster campaign in Portugal.
They are also selling new "Don't Give Up on Madeleine" T-shirts at £6 each in order to raise funds to finance the search for her.
http://www.findmadeleine.com/
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