Jaycee Dugard Interview: Diane Sawyer Speaks Candidly With Survivor — Transcript
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- 0:00and now my exclusive interview with Jac
- 0:02Dugard a woman who endured the
- 0:04unimaginable and emerged with powerful
- 0:06lessons on love and life she was
- 0:10kidnapped as an 11-year-old child and
- 0:13imprisoned abused in mind and in body
- 0:17she gave birth in a backyard now for the
- 0:20first time we hear her
- 0:24speak this is how she looked the last
- 0:26time we saw her a little girl with a
- 0:28name out of a story book h J Lee Dugard
- 0:3111 years old a girl who loved her mom
- 0:36her little sister thank you and a cat
- 0:39named Monkey a fifth grader who set out
- 0:41for the school bus one morning where she
- 0:43was kidnapped by a convicted sex
- 0:46predator Philip guito who handcuffed her
- 0:50raped her imprisoned her and she gave
- 0:53birth twice in a deranged backyard for
- 0:5718 years she was never allowed to say
- 1:00her name on the day her first child is
- 1:03born she is alone in her backyard prison
- 1:07so August 18th 1994 you're how
- 1:11old
- 1:1314 you're you're in labor and there's
- 1:16nobody there having a
- 1:18baby in a
- 1:21backyard yep I
- 1:25did very painful but
- 1:30then I saw
- 1:32her she
- 1:35was
- 1:40beautiful I I felt like I wasn't alone
- 1:48anymore had
- 1:50somebody that was
- 1:56mine I wasn't alone
- 2:02and I knew I could never let anything
- 2:03happen to
- 2:07her I didn't know how I was going to do
- 2:09that but I
- 2:12did in her Story of Survival a lesson
- 2:16for every person alive I'm trying to
- 2:21imagine how you are coping I'm trying to
- 2:26imagine I don't
- 2:28know I can't imagine being beaten to
- 2:30death you know but and you can't imagine
- 2:34being kidnapped and and raped you know
- 2:37so it's just you just do what you have
- 2:39to do to
- 2:41survive and 18 years later a stunning
- 2:45reunion with the mother who loves her
- 2:48but remembers something she forgot to do
- 2:50for her child that day 18 years ago I
- 2:54had been late to work three Monday
- 2:57Mornings in a row and I was focused on
- 3:00myself trying to get myself out that
- 3:03door so it wouldn't be late for work and
- 3:06I chose not to go in and kiss my girls
- 3:09goodbye that
- 3:12morning wanting to be on
- 3:15time
- 3:18and for 18 years I kick myself for not
- 3:24kissing that baby
- 3:26goodbye how could you have known though
- 3:28you can't beat yourself up about
- 3:31that
- 3:35no but it's a good lesson you know take
- 3:38a minute for your
- 3:41kids do
- 3:44that extra thing
- 3:46that may be an inconvenience to you but
- 3:50is important to
- 3:54them it is an astonishing story of Hope
- 3:58and enduring love love and courage Jai
- 4:01her mother and also Chris CUA will be
- 4:04investigating how law enforcement failed
- 4:06to find her even though they made 60
- 4:09visits to the house where she was being
- 4:12held a 2-hour special this Sunday from 9
- 4:15to 11: Eastern Time
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