Elizabeth Smart Reveals New Details About Her 9 Months in Captivity — Transcript

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1. 0:00Elizabeth Smart is revealing new details
2. 0:02about her horrifying nine months in
3. 0:04captivity sixteen years later she
4. 0:07vividly remembers the night she was
5. 0:09snatched from her bedroom I remember
6. 0:11falling asleep and then the next thing I
7. 0:13remember hearing was a man's voice then
8. 0:16I heard the voice again saying the same
9. 0:17words I have a knife at your neck don't
10. 0:19make a sound get up and come with me and
11. 0:21I remember opening my eyes and there
12. 0:23sure enough was this man standing above
13. 0:26me
14. 0:27she says the monsters who abducted her
15. 0:29also wanted to kidnap another girl there
16. 0:32was a potential second victim is that
17. 0:35right he had somebody else picked out
18. 0:36there were a couple times actually that
19. 0:39he had other victims picked out that he
20. 0:42wanted to go out and kidnap and
21. 0:43truthfully there was a part of me that
22. 0:46wanted a friend there was a part of me
23. 0:48that really wanted someone else to be
24. 0:50there with me to know what I was going
25. 0:52through and and thinking that you know
26. 0:54maybe we could escape together maybe we
27. 0:57could make a stand against these these
28. 1:01two monsters I knew it was wrong but
29. 1:04that couldn't change the fact that I
30. 1:06wanted a friend now thirty Elizabeth
31. 1:09writes about the ordeal in her new book
32. 1:11where there's hope healing moving
33. 1:14forward and never giving up Elizabeth
34. 1:16was held against her will by religious
35. 1:18zealots Brian Mitchell and Wanda bars II
36. 1:21Mitchell is serving a life term in
37. 1:23prison bars II who is now 72 was
38. 1:26sentenced to 15 years I grew up being
39. 1:29very very shy today Elizabeth who still
40. 1:33lives in Utah is a victims rights
41. 1:35advocate and also happily married to say
42. 1:38the least
43. 1:38she's a very protective mom of two do
44. 1:41you find yourself sort of obsessively
45. 1:44checking windows checking doors I don't
46. 1:46know if I obsessively check but I
47. 1:49certainly do check
48. 1:51[Music]
49. 1:54you
50. 1:54[Music]