ALISON BOTHA: A SURVIVAL STORY — Transcript

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1. 0:00hello everybody my name is rachel and
2. 0:01welcome back to my channel
3. 0:03so the case that i have for you today is
4. 0:05about an absolutely amazing woman
5. 0:08who overcame one of the most horrific
6. 0:10and unimaginable crimes that you can go
7. 0:12through
8. 0:13it does get a bit graphic at times so i
9. 0:16tried my best to avoid any unnecessary
10. 0:18graphic detail
11. 0:19but some of the details of this case are
12. 0:22really important to talk about
13. 0:23so this is your warning now i only say
14. 0:26that because this is probably one of the
15. 0:27most disturbing videos that i've ever
16. 0:29done on this
17. 0:30channel so it is a little bit more of a
18. 0:32sensitive topic and so
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80. 2:23so with all of that being said let's get
81. 2:25into the video
82. 2:26today we are going to be discussing the
83. 2:28very disturbing case of alison batha
84. 2:31alison botha was born on september 22nd
85. 2:341967 in port elizabeth south africa
86. 2:37she seemed to have a relatively normal
87. 2:39childhood as far as i saw
88. 2:41but her parents got divorced when she
89. 2:43was 10 years old so she lived most of
90. 2:45her life with her mother claire and her
91. 2:47brother neil
92. 2:47she was described as others by confident
93. 2:50and adventurous but she sort of
94. 2:52described herself
95. 2:53as ordinary not really standing out too
96. 2:55much and she didn't really have
97. 2:56a set direction in her life that she
98. 2:58wanted to go in for quite a while
99. 3:00she went to school and was the head girl
100. 3:02at the collegiate high school for girls
101. 3:04and port elizabeth she went to
102. 3:05university for a secretarial degree and
103. 3:07when she graduated she spent about four
104. 3:09years
105. 3:10traveling around before she returned
106. 3:12home to port elizabeth to settle down
107. 3:14and start a career as an insurance
108. 3:16broker
109. 3:16now sunday december 18 1994
110. 3:19started as a pretty normal day for 27
111. 3:22year old allison
112. 3:23she had gone to the beach for the day
113. 3:24with some friends before they headed
114. 3:26back to allison's apartment for some
115. 3:28pizza and to play a game called
116. 3:30balderdash
117. 3:31all the friends had a pretty fun day
118. 3:33before her friends decided to call it a
119. 3:35night at around 1am
120. 3:36earlier allison had actually offered to
121. 3:38drive one of her friends kim home
122. 3:40so she went ahead and did that and then
123. 3:42returned back to her apartment now
124. 3:44normally allison had a pretty nice
125. 3:46parking spot in her apartment complex
126. 3:48which was only a short walk away from
127. 3:50her unit
128. 3:51however when she got home she realized
129. 3:52that the spot had actually been taken
130. 3:54so she had to drive around and search
131. 3:56for a new one that wasn't too far away
132. 3:59and eventually she did find a spot but
133. 4:01the spot was right under a big tree
134. 4:03and the area was already pretty poorly
135. 4:06lit
136. 4:06and this tree just blocked the light
137. 4:08even more so
138. 4:09it was pretty dark where she had ended
139. 4:11up parking but at this point she was
140. 4:13pretty
141. 4:14tired and was ready to just head
142. 4:15upstairs take a shower and go to bed
143. 4:18so she had reached over in her car to
144. 4:20grab the laundry bag out of the
145. 4:21passenger side of her car
146. 4:23before heading out to the apartment
147. 4:25however as she was doing so
148. 4:27she was leaned over in the passenger
149. 4:29seat grabbing the bag
150. 4:30she suddenly felt a warm gush of air she
151. 4:33looked over
152. 4:34only to see that a tall skinny white man
153. 4:37with blonde hair
154. 4:38had swung the door open and was now
155. 4:40standing there with a knife
156. 4:42and it was her driver's side door so she
157. 4:44was faced away from him
158. 4:46when he opened the door so after this he
159. 4:48leaned over to her and said in a quiet
160. 4:51but very serious tone
161. 4:53move over or i'll kill you so she did
162. 4:55exactly
163. 4:56that she moved over to the passenger
164. 4:58seat of her car
165. 4:59after she moved this man got into the
166. 5:01driver's seat of the car
167. 5:02and just started driving of course
168. 5:05allison
169. 5:06was absolutely terrified and completely
170. 5:09frozen in
171. 5:10fear but after a few minutes of driving
172. 5:12this man
173. 5:13introduced himself as clinton and
174. 5:15assured her by saying i don't want to
175. 5:17hurt you i just need to use your car
176. 5:19for an hour and of course allison really
177. 5:22didn't know what to think
178. 5:23but she wanted to believe him she went
179. 5:26through
180. 5:26all of these different scenarios in her
181. 5:28head she thought of maybe just
182. 5:30jumping out of the car doing something
183. 5:33but
184. 5:34she was just frozen she just begged the
185. 5:36man to please just let her out of the
186. 5:38car
187. 5:39she said that you know you can take the
188. 5:41car just to let her go
189. 5:43but he said no he told her that he was
190. 5:46looking for someone who owed him money
191. 5:48and that he wouldn't be long
192. 5:49and what he had to do so the man drove
193. 5:52for a little bit longer before arriving
194. 5:54in a different area of port elizabeth
195. 5:56once he got there he finally found the
196. 5:58person that he had been searching for
197. 6:00he pulled over and told this man to get
198. 6:02into his car
199. 6:04he introduced this man to allison as
200. 6:06duns
201. 6:07and told thunder that this was his new
202. 6:09friend allison
203. 6:10after suns got into the car clinton
204. 6:12drove to the outskirts of port elizabeth
205. 6:15to an area that was completely isolated
206. 6:18it was a very desolate area in the bush
207. 6:20with
208. 6:21absolutely nothing around at this point
209. 6:24allison knew that something horrible was
210. 6:26about to happen to her
211. 6:27but nobody could have predicted the
212. 6:30level
213. 6:30of brutality and violence that she was
214. 6:33about to endure
215. 6:34so clinton whose real name was actually
216. 6:36friends to tweet
217. 6:37and duns told allison that they were
218. 6:39going to have sex with her and
219. 6:41asked her if she was going to fight them
220. 6:43obviously
221. 6:44she was trapped she was isolated there
222. 6:46was absolutely nowhere for her to go
223. 6:48and she was absolutely terrified so she
224. 6:51told them no
225. 6:52she wasn't going to fight them what
226. 6:53happens next is very disturbing
227. 6:56it's very graphic and very violent so i
228. 6:59just wanted to go ahead and warn you now
229. 7:00because it is very difficult to hear but
230. 7:04after this both of them brutally raped
231. 7:06alison
232. 7:07one after the other after that they
233. 7:10tried to suffocate her until she fell
234. 7:12unconscious
235. 7:13at this point they had tried to kill her
236. 7:15but alison was still
237. 7:16alive despite them trying to suffocate
238. 7:18her so
239. 7:19the two of them became very frustrated
240. 7:22and the two
241. 7:23started stabbing her they stabbed her
242. 7:26upwards of
243. 7:2636 times in the abdomen and they were
244. 7:29actually trying to target her
245. 7:31reproductive organs
246. 7:32after stabbing her they thought that she
247. 7:34was dead but then her leg twitched and
248. 7:37they realized that she was not dead yet
249. 7:39so they decided to take it a step
250. 7:41further and they slit her throat
251. 7:4317 times it was later described that as
252. 7:46she was laying there
253. 7:48on top of a bunch of broken glass and
254. 7:50sand
255. 7:51the man was just standing above her and
256. 7:54all she could see
257. 7:55was his arms moving left and right and
258. 7:57left and right over her face as he was
259. 7:59slitting her throat
260. 8:01this entire time she was completely
261. 8:04aware of
262. 8:05everything that was being done to her by
263. 8:07these two men
264. 8:08eventually the two men stepped away and
265. 8:10the two men looked at her and spoke to
266. 8:12each other in africans
267. 8:13one man asked do you think she's dead
268. 8:15and the other man replied
269. 8:17no one can survive that at this point
270. 8:19alison
271. 8:20was still alive and as she heard them
272. 8:22talking she kept hearing
273. 8:23this rasping sound the sound was
274. 8:26actually coming from her throat
275. 8:28and from bleeding from her horrific
276. 8:30injuries
277. 8:31to her this noise sounded so loud
278. 8:35so she tried to do whatever she could to
279. 8:37stop this noise because she was afraid
280. 8:39that they would
281. 8:40hear but she also wanted to make sure
282. 8:42that she stayed completely still
283. 8:44because she didn't want them to know
284. 8:45that she was still alive
285. 8:47but then as she was laying there she
286. 8:49felt something being
287. 8:50thrown on her she didn't know what it
288. 8:53was but at that point it didn't really
289. 8:55matter and so she just stayed and laid
290. 8:57there and did not move a muscle
291. 8:59she just laid there until she heard them
292. 9:01walk away and listened as their voices
293. 9:04got more faint
294. 9:05and finally she heard the men get into
295. 9:07her car and drive away
296. 9:09leaving her completely alone to just die
297. 9:12there
298. 9:13at this point she was sure that she was
299. 9:15going to die
300. 9:16so she took every last ounce of strength
301. 9:18that she had to
302. 9:20leave some clues around her about who
303. 9:22did this to her
304. 9:23she had actually caught the names of
305. 9:25both of these men throughout the attack
306. 9:27because they just
307. 9:27kept talking to each other so she at
308. 9:30least knew the names of these two men
309. 9:32so she wrote their names in the sand and
310. 9:34beneath that
311. 9:35she wrote i love mom she was just
312. 9:38laying there wondering how she was going
313. 9:40to possibly survive this
314. 9:43but then she saw headlights beaming
315. 9:45through the bushes
316. 9:47it was a car on the road that was
317. 9:48driving past her
318. 9:50this gave her the motivation that she
319. 9:52needed to know
320. 9:53that there was still a possibility that
321. 9:55there was somebody out there
322. 9:56who could help her she had tried to get
323. 9:59up but she had been attacked
324. 10:00so bad that her intestines were actually
325. 10:03falling out of her abdomen
326. 10:04but she had noticed that the item that
327. 10:06one of the men had
328. 10:08thrown on her was actually her denim
329. 10:10jacket so she picked it up and used that
330. 10:12to
331. 10:13compress the area and control everything
332. 10:15that was going on and put everything
333. 10:17back inside
334. 10:18then somehow she was able to get up
335. 10:21she managed to crawl through the dirt
336. 10:23and all of the broken glass
337. 10:25as she was doing this though she just
338. 10:27kept getting more
339. 10:28and more exhausted until she collapsed
340. 10:31into the ground
341. 10:32but through this exhaustion she just
342. 10:35kept thinking of her mother and that
343. 10:37gave her the strength to keep going
344. 10:39she kept crawling but that was just
345. 10:41taking way too much strength and way too
346. 10:44much energy
347. 10:45so she managed to get up onto her feet
348. 10:47to start walking
349. 10:48but when she was on her feet she just
350. 10:50fell back
351. 10:51and at that point that's when she
352. 10:53realized just how badly her throat had
353. 10:56been cut
354. 10:57her head fell back and she lost her
355. 10:59vision
356. 11:00she had nearly been decapitated from how
357. 11:04bad the injuries to her throat were so
358. 11:06she used one of her free hands to
359. 11:08push her head back forward and she got
360. 11:10her vision back
361. 11:12she literally had to use one free hand
362. 11:14to keep her head on her neck
363. 11:16and the other one to hold her denim
364. 11:18jacket up on her abdomen to
365. 11:20keep everything compressed but she
366. 11:22managed to do this and she managed to
367. 11:24keep trudging forward towards the road
368. 11:26but as she was doing so her vision was
369. 11:29just going in
370. 11:30and out and in and out until she
371. 11:32eventually got to
372. 11:34the road once she reached the road she
373. 11:36just collapsed onto the white line
374. 11:38she knew that her best bet was just to
375. 11:41lay there and hopefully be noticed by
376. 11:43someone who was driving by
377. 11:44there were actually two cars who had saw
378. 11:47her
379. 11:47and then slowed down next to her but
380. 11:49then just sped off
381. 11:50it's kind of disgraceful but then
382. 11:53thankfully
383. 11:54there was another car on the road that
384. 11:56did see allison
385. 11:57and did decide to stop a 20 year old man
386. 12:00named tian ellard had gotten out of the
387. 12:03car to see what was going on
388. 12:05tian was a vet student from johansenburg
389. 12:07on vacation with some friends in port
390. 12:09elizabeth
391. 12:10at the time he had gotten out of his car
392. 12:12to help this woman and realized that she
393. 12:14was still
394. 12:15alive he then used his veterinary
395. 12:17experience to help stabilize everything
396. 12:19and help keep her conscious
397. 12:21he covered her up and just kept talking
398. 12:23to her this entire time
399. 12:25to keep her awake thankfully one of
400. 12:27tien's friends had a cell phone so they
401. 12:29were able to call an ambulance for her
402. 12:31they actually ended up waiting 45
403. 12:33minutes to an hour it's been
404. 12:35reported a little bit differently so i'm
405. 12:37not exactly sure how long
406. 12:39but they waited for quite a while before
407. 12:42an ambulance eventually arrived
408. 12:44so at that point it kind of seemed like
409. 12:46she was just dead
410. 12:47she wasn't going to survive and there
411. 12:49was nothing that anybody could do
412. 12:50to help her when she arrived at the
413. 12:52hospital doctors were
414. 12:54absolutely horrified at her condition dr
415. 12:57alexander angelov went on to say that in
416. 13:00his 16
417. 13:01years as a doctor he has never seen
418. 13:03anybody with such severe
419. 13:05injuries she was on the brink of death
420. 13:08and they
421. 13:08were confident that there was no way
422. 13:10that she was going to pull through
423. 13:12they described her condition as being
424. 13:14absolutely filthy
425. 13:16her entire body was covered in a thin
426. 13:19layer of black
427. 13:20dirt her eyes were just a bloodshot her
428. 13:22hair was matted her feet were lacerated
429. 13:25and her fingernails were completely
430. 13:27black
431. 13:28her neck had been cut all the way across
432. 13:30and like i said earlier
433. 13:32her head was barely hanging on and also
434. 13:35like i said earlier she had been stabbed
435. 13:3736 times in her abdomen and her pubic
436. 13:40area
437. 13:41she ended up being in surgery for three
438. 13:43hours they actually had to wash her
439. 13:45intestines in a saline solution before
440. 13:48reorganizing them back into her and
441. 13:50stitching her up
442. 13:51they reconstructed her neck and
443. 13:54thankfully
444. 13:55somehow by the grace of god her
445. 13:57attackers had
446. 13:58missed her carotid artery and her
447. 14:00esophagus your carotid artery
448. 14:03is basically your lifeline if that's cut
449. 14:06your brain
450. 14:06is not going to have the blood and
451. 14:08oxygen it needs
452. 14:10so if that had been cut she definitely
453. 14:12wouldn't have survived this but
454. 14:14thankfully they just didn't get it it
455. 14:17was absolutely incredible
456. 14:18and she did end up surviving her surgery
457. 14:21with minimal remaining impairments but
458. 14:23the doctors thought that she probably
459. 14:25wasn't going to be able to go on to have
460. 14:27kids due to the severity of the wounds
461. 14:30to her reproductive organs
462. 14:32but either way she was conscious and she
463. 14:34was able to
464. 14:35vividly remember everything about her
465. 14:37attack
466. 14:38including who the men were and what they
467. 14:41looked like
468. 14:41so police brought allison a book full of
469. 14:44pictures of
470. 14:45a bunch of different offenders from
471. 14:46around the area and she was able to
472. 14:48point them out
473. 14:49right away now these two men actually
474. 14:52had a very concerning and infuriating
475. 14:55history of sexual violence against women
476. 14:58so now i'm gonna go ahead and talk about
477. 15:00the history of things leading up
478. 15:01to allison's attack in february of 1994
479. 15:05friends to tweet did a similar thing to
480. 15:08a 19 year old girl
481. 15:09he surprised her too by opening up the
482. 15:11door of her car
483. 15:12and telling her to move to the passenger
484. 15:14seat he then drove to a secluded area
485. 15:17and proceeded to
486. 15:18rape her he then drove to a nearby cafe
487. 15:21and then got her dinner and gave her a
488. 15:24rose
489. 15:25however after this attack he got her
490. 15:27back into the car
491. 15:28drove her to another secluded location
492. 15:31and assaulted her once again
493. 15:33after that he drove her back to the city
494. 15:35and let her go
495. 15:36of course this young woman reported the
496. 15:38rape and he was
497. 15:40arrested but he was released on bail by
498. 15:42early december of that year
499. 15:44both him and duns had approached a 21
500. 15:46year old pregnant woman and then they
501. 15:48threatened her
502. 15:49with a gun made her walk to a secluded
503. 15:52area and then
504. 15:52they both raped her they ended up
505. 15:54letting her go too
506. 15:56and she also reported the rape and they
507. 15:58were both arrested
508. 15:59but of course they were both released
509. 16:01shortly after
510. 16:02at this point the judge said that he
511. 16:04didn't know that franz had the other
512. 16:06rape charge
513. 16:07but it didn't really matter because they
514. 16:09shouldn't have never been released in
515. 16:11the first place
516. 16:12this was a violent attack doesn't matter
517. 16:14if it's their first time or not
518. 16:16i can just never understand how a judge
519. 16:19can see two men who literally held a
520. 16:21woman
521. 16:22at gunpoint especially a pregnant woman
522. 16:24and then
523. 16:25raped her and thought hmm they're
524. 16:27probably not gonna do it again so
525. 16:29let's just let them out and await their
526. 16:31trial because then
527. 16:32as we know two weeks after they were
528. 16:35released on
529. 16:36bail in december of 1994 the two
530. 16:39kidnapped raped and attempted to murder
531. 16:42alison botha
532. 16:43when they did this to allison they knew
533. 16:44that they couldn't just leave her alive
534. 16:46because the other two women had reported
535. 16:48their rapes and they didn't
536. 16:50want to get caught this time so they
537. 16:52figured we need to kill her this time to
538. 16:54make sure we don't get caught
539. 16:56it's absolutely ridiculous and it's very
540. 16:58predictable yet somehow this judge
541. 17:00didn't think that that would happen and
542. 17:02just
543. 17:02let them out it's absolutely appalling
544. 17:05and
545. 17:06i really hope things have changed in
546. 17:07south africa so now going back to when
547. 17:09allison had
548. 17:10woken up from surgery she was able to
549. 17:13remember
550. 17:14exactly what her attackers looked like
551. 17:15and she identified them
552. 17:17right away so shortly after this police
553. 17:19were able to locate them
554. 17:21and they were arrested so since krueger
555. 17:23was the first to be interviewed and when
556. 17:25he was given the news that he was being
557. 17:27charged with attempted murder and rape
558. 17:29he was very surprised the two were very
559. 17:32confident that they had killed her but
560. 17:34as we know
561. 17:35they hadn't so right away thunds handed
562. 17:38over the
563. 17:39knife that they used for alison's attack
564. 17:42as well as the jewelry that they had
565. 17:43stolen from her
566. 17:45franz was then questioned as well and he
567. 17:47too admitted
568. 17:48everything they both showed absolutely
569. 17:51zero emotion
570. 17:52or remorse for anything that they had
571. 17:54done and they actually
572. 17:56informed police that they had planned on
573. 17:58raping another woman the
574. 18:00very next day and they were going to
575. 18:01throw her off of a bridge
576. 18:03then the two came out and said that the
577. 18:06reason that they were committing all of
578. 18:08these disgusting and horrific crimes was
579. 18:10because
580. 18:11they were involved in satanism they said
581. 18:13that they were possessed by
582. 18:15demons and these demons were the ones
583. 18:16who were telling them to do all of these
584. 18:18crimes
585. 18:19and of course the media ran wild with
586. 18:22this
587. 18:22this was around the time in the early
588. 18:2590s when the satanic panic was running
589. 18:27rampant in south africa
590. 18:29in 1992 they had actually created a task
591. 18:32force that was responsible specifically
592. 18:35for crimes related to the occult
593. 18:37so it was kind of obvious that the two
594. 18:39were just using all of this
595. 18:41panic and media outrage to make up
596. 18:44excuses for what they did
597. 18:45and try to blame it on some random
598. 18:47demons but
599. 18:49nobody believed them then after the men
600. 18:51were arrested of course they went to
601. 18:53trial
602. 18:54obviously the prosecution had a very
603. 18:56strong case against them
604. 18:57they had all of the evidence from that
605. 18:59night as well
606. 19:01as allison's testimony by august of 1995
607. 19:04both of them were found guilty of eight
608. 19:06charges which included
609. 19:08two counts of kidnapping two counts of
610. 19:10indecent assault
611. 19:11two counts of rape one count of
612. 19:14aggravated robbery and one count of
613. 19:16attempted murder
614. 19:17the two are being charged with allison's
615. 19:19assault and then the assault on the
616. 19:21pregnant woman that we discussed earlier
617. 19:23friends to tweet was handed three life
618. 19:25sentences and offense krueger was handed
619. 19:27a life sentence
620. 19:28plus 25 years the judge made it very
621. 19:31clear
622. 19:31that he wanted these two men behind bars
623. 19:34for the rest of their lives
624. 19:37so now rewinding just a little bit
625. 19:40alison had stayed in the hospital for
626. 19:42three weeks and she was recovering from
627. 19:44her injuries
628. 19:45while she was there news about her
629. 19:47attack was spreading all around south
630. 19:49africa
631. 19:49and support for her came absolutely
632. 19:52pouring in
633. 19:53thousands of people sent her cards and
634. 19:56letters
635. 19:56and flowers everybody admired her grit
636. 20:00and her strength
637. 20:01people had come to visit her in the
638. 20:03hospital and they were absolutely
639. 20:05horrified at her condition but
640. 20:07apparently she was just
641. 20:09sitting there and cracking jokes and had
642. 20:11such a positive
643. 20:12attitude it was absolutely incredible
644. 20:15after she left the hospital she did get
645. 20:17to go home but her care was not done
646. 20:20there she had to go back to the hospital
647. 20:22pretty much every day for continued care
648. 20:24for her surgical sites so that she
649. 20:26wouldn't have any infections or any
650. 20:28further complications
651. 20:30it was a very slow painful and grueling
652. 20:33process
653. 20:34but she made it through but even though
654. 20:36she had recovered and the men
655. 20:38responsible had been put behind
656. 20:40bars allison still had so many things
657. 20:43she had to deal with
658. 20:44as a result of the attack she wasn't
659. 20:47able to work and she fell into a very
660. 20:49severe and deep
661. 20:51depression she didn't know how she was
662. 20:53going to continue on with her life after
663. 20:56this
664. 20:56so she decided to take what happened to
665. 20:59her
666. 20:59and speak out and share her story she
667. 21:02quit her job with the insurance firm and
668. 21:04started traveling all around the world
669. 21:06to tell her story in so many different
670. 21:08countries
671. 21:09she was actually one of the first women
672. 21:12from south africa to speak out publicly
673. 21:14about rape
674. 21:15her story inspired so many other
675. 21:17survivors to come forward and share
676. 21:19their stories
677. 21:21by 1995 she won the rotarian paul harris
678. 21:24award for
679. 21:25courage beyond the norm as well as the
680. 21:27feminine magazine's woman of
681. 21:28courage award she was also later honored
682. 21:31as poor elizabeth's citizen of the year
683. 21:34she also went on to get married to
684. 21:36tianibatha in february of 1997.
685. 21:39her and tani had actually known each
686. 21:41other for many years
687. 21:42but about a year after her attack the
688. 21:44two had met again
689. 21:45at a friend's house the two connected
690. 21:48because both had experiences of trauma
691. 21:50teeny had unsolved childhood trauma that
692. 21:53he was still battling and alison
693. 21:55was battling her own depression the two
694. 21:57were able to help each other out of
695. 21:59their
696. 21:59own personal darknesses and through that
697. 22:02they fell in love
698. 22:03and they knew that they wanted to spend
699. 22:05the rest of their lives together
700. 22:07then by november 14th of 2003 she gave
701. 22:10birth to her son
702. 22:11daniel and then went on to have another
703. 22:13baby boy named
704. 22:14matthew a few years after that she also
705. 22:17went on to publish
706. 22:19two books one was called i have a life
707. 22:21allison's journey as told
708. 22:23by marian tham and published in 1998.
709. 22:27she then went on to publish her book for
710. 22:28the tough times in 2002.
711. 22:31she also has a movie about her attack
712. 22:33which came out in 2016.
713. 22:36she continued traveling all over the
714. 22:38country to tell her story and
715. 22:40so many people have come out to her and
716. 22:42told her that
717. 22:43her story inspired them and some people
718. 22:46have even said that her story has saved
719. 22:48their life
720. 22:49because they feel less alone in their
721. 22:51own personal experiences of violence and
722. 22:54rape
723. 22:54she once said quote life can sometimes
724. 22:58make us feel like the victim
725. 23:00problems and hardships and traumas are
726. 23:02dished out to all of us and sometimes
727. 23:04they can be divided very
728. 23:05unfairly remind yourself that you do not
729. 23:08have to take responsibility for what
730. 23:10others do
731. 23:11life is not a collection of what happens
732. 23:14to you but how have you responded to
733. 23:16what has happened to you
734. 23:17she chooses not to live her life as a
735. 23:20victim and used what happened her as a
736. 23:22motivating factor to do
737. 23:24better for herself and help as many
738. 23:26people as she can
739. 23:27along the way people have often asked me
740. 23:30well what made me survive
741. 23:32what made me fine and if i only got to
742. 23:34give them a sentence the sentence is
743. 23:37because i was worth getting up for
744. 23:40because i was worth fighting for
745. 23:42and that ladies and mothers
746. 23:46is not something that i was told then at
747. 23:49the moment
748. 23:50my mother was not with me at that moment
749. 23:53and you as mothers are not going to be
750. 23:55with your children when they face their
751. 23:56doctor's eye
752. 23:59all they're going to have from you is
753. 24:00what you've implanted in them
754. 24:03when you bring them up
755. 24:06all you're going to have in your times
756. 24:08when you've got the spare time
757. 24:09in your own life is what you've planted
758. 24:11in it now things are going okay
759. 24:14so don't just waste the time when things
760. 24:15are going okay
761. 24:17nurture it in yourself show your
762. 24:18children by example
763. 24:20what it means to live a life of worth
764. 24:23but i see words in myself now of course
765. 24:25that goes to that everyone else is just
766. 24:27as worthy as you so you've got to have
767. 24:28the empathy which is huge for me as well
768. 24:30but this is my core thing that i know
769. 24:32saved my life
770. 24:33start with you don't ignore you alison
771. 24:36botha is truly
772. 24:37such an inspiration and i can't even
773. 24:39imagine the courage that it takes to
774. 24:41talk about such a horrific
775. 24:43incident in front of millions of people
776. 24:45like she has
777. 24:46even alone just the fact that she
778. 24:48survived this entire thing is
779. 24:50absolutely incredible and shows how much
780. 24:53of a freaking
781. 24:54fighter she is she was not going to give
782. 24:57up and she continues
783. 24:59to this day to show just how strong
784. 25:02she is but she's also helped so many
785. 25:05people come forward with their
786. 25:06own experiences and has taught millions
787. 25:09of young women how to cope with what
788. 25:11they've personally gone through and
789. 25:13that's truly amazing but that is all i
790. 25:16have for today's video
791. 25:17i'm really excited to see what you guys
792. 25:19have to say about this case and about
793. 25:21alison
794. 25:22and her amazing courage i'm so excited
795. 25:24to have that discussion
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