A woman whose mother grew up in the jungle with monkeys has followed in her footsteps, leaving Bradford for the rainforests of South America.

Marina Chapman, as the “Daily Mail” writes, claimed that she grew up with the company of monkeys in the wilds of Colombia, after being kidnapped and abandoned by traffickers when she was just four years old.

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In her adult life she eventually made it to England, where she married a civil servant and had children in West Yorkshire. With stories of human traffickers, poachers and her mother almost being forced into prostitution before she first set foot in Britain, you’d forgive her children for never wanting to travel to the jungle.

But for Vanessa Forero, her eldest daughter, her mother’s stories were too enticing to ignore, and now she has settled in the same rainforests.

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In a remote retreat in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, she says she feels like she belongs, adding: “I’ve always decorated my room at home with images of nature and mountains.”

On Ben Fogle’s Channel 5 show, Vanessa reveals her mother was unhappy her 40-year-old daughter left the UK for the jungle. But the decision, which came after her own 15-year marriage ended, was “written in the stars”, she said. Vanessa said: “Mom doesn’t like me being here and so far away from her. But at the same time, he can understand why I’m here.”.

In her 2013 memoir The Girl With No Name, her mother claimed she spent five years of her childhood being raised by capuchin monkeys in a rainforest. He claimed to have copied the eating habits and high-pitched cries of monkeys and had even learned to climb jungle trees. She said she was four years old when she was abducted from the garden of her family’s home and left unconscious in the woods.

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Over time, he says, he developed dry skin and muscular arms and legs, learned how to sleep in a hollow piece of tree trunk, and how to communicate with them.

“I imitated the noises monkeys made for fun”, remembers Ms. Chapman. “So I practiced the sounds they made… If there was imminent danger, their voice would become louder and sharper, which was usually accompanied by slapping the hands on the ground”he added.