Jaycee Dugard Interview: Speaks Out to Diane Sawyer in ABC News Exclusive (07.07.11) — Transcript
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- 0:00now we're going to go to Jac Dugard she
- 0:02was abducted just 11 years at just 11
- 0:04years old on her way to school and held
- 0:06captive for 18 years she is speaking up
- 0:09for the first time to ABC's Diane Sawyer
- 0:12Jac has written a new book called stolen
- 0:15a stolen Life and Diane joins us right
- 0:17now with a preview of her exclusive
- 0:19interview familiar face a big big
- 0:23interview you know you say that ji is
- 0:25one of the most remarkable people you
- 0:27have ever met but you can't endure 18
- 0:29years of hell and be unaffected by it
- 0:32you can't be unaffected by it but you
- 0:34can sometimes transform it into a new
- 0:36way of looking at life and every day and
- 0:39that is what she does it's inconceivable
- 0:41to us so how does she strike you is she
- 0:43naive does she have issues with trust
- 0:46she looks with
- 0:47unflinching Clarity at what was done to
- 0:50her the handcuffs the sexual abuse she
- 0:53talks about it she tells about it but at
- 0:56the end of the day she says he's not
- 0:58going to own me I will stare it down and
- 1:00I will not be afraid one of the things
- 1:02that is so remarkable about this story
- 1:04aside from the 18 years of captivity is
- 1:07that she gave birth to two babies in
- 1:10that backyard giving birth is a scary
- 1:13thing did she do this by herself and
- 1:16again she didn't there was she had no
- 1:18medical care she had the gitos who were
- 1:21holding her hostage there but did they
- 1:23help her and well they helped her but
- 1:25they studied videos to learn how to do
- 1:27it and and as she tells it and you see
- 1:30tonight on world news she's going to
- 1:31speak for the first time you will hear
- 1:33emotionally her reaction this girl who
- 1:36barely knows what it is to have a baby
- 1:40and her reaction when she sees this
- 1:42child that she's brought into this world
- 1:44it's so moving during that 18 years did
- 1:46she ever try to escape you know it it's
- 1:49such a complex always a complex prison
- 1:53without bars sometimes of the mind and
- 1:55here is the most inconceivable thing
- 1:58Elizabeth and chrisw has launched an
- 2:01investigation that is incredible 60
- 2:04times 60 not6 6 times officers of the
- 2:08law came to the door came to the house
- 2:11she was there in the backyard they
- 2:14didn't look or they didn't find her how
- 2:16is that possible that's what we were
- 2:18asking and we're going to tell you all
- 2:19about it on our special on Sunday night
- 2:22so bottom line when you talk to her and
- 2:24her mother I mean because this is a
- 2:26reunion between mother and daughter this
- 2:28the other half of this story of course
- 2:29is a mother whose daughter went missing
- 2:31for 18 years that's right has that been
- 2:33a bumpy road um that that well REM
- 2:37meting of sorts for both of them to keep
- 2:39up hope for 18 years imagine that bumpy
- 2:43no it was love and more love and joy and
- 2:48her mother's struggling but not about JC
- 2:51or her daughters just love wow all right
- 2:54Diane thank you so much you can see all
- 2:55of Diane's riveting an exclusive
- 2:57interview with JC Dugard this Sunday
- 2:59night at 9:00 8 central
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