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Jaycee Dugard Interview: Speaks Out to Diane Sawyer in ABC News Exclusive (07.07.11) — Transcript

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  1. 0:00now we're going to go to Jac Dugard she
  2. 0:02was abducted just 11 years at just 11
  3. 0:04years old on her way to school and held
  4. 0:06captive for 18 years she is speaking up
  5. 0:09for the first time to ABC's Diane Sawyer
  6. 0:12Jac has written a new book called stolen
  7. 0:15a stolen Life and Diane joins us right
  8. 0:17now with a preview of her exclusive
  9. 0:19interview familiar face a big big
  10. 0:23interview you know you say that ji is
  11. 0:25one of the most remarkable people you
  12. 0:27have ever met but you can't endure 18
  13. 0:29years of hell and be unaffected by it
  14. 0:32you can't be unaffected by it but you
  15. 0:34can sometimes transform it into a new
  16. 0:36way of looking at life and every day and
  17. 0:39that is what she does it's inconceivable
  18. 0:41to us so how does she strike you is she
  19. 0:43naive does she have issues with trust
  20. 0:46she looks with
  21. 0:47unflinching Clarity at what was done to
  22. 0:50her the handcuffs the sexual abuse she
  23. 0:53talks about it she tells about it but at
  24. 0:56the end of the day she says he's not
  25. 0:58going to own me I will stare it down and
  26. 1:00I will not be afraid one of the things
  27. 1:02that is so remarkable about this story
  28. 1:04aside from the 18 years of captivity is
  29. 1:07that she gave birth to two babies in
  30. 1:10that backyard giving birth is a scary
  31. 1:13thing did she do this by herself and
  32. 1:16again she didn't there was she had no
  33. 1:18medical care she had the gitos who were
  34. 1:21holding her hostage there but did they
  35. 1:23help her and well they helped her but
  36. 1:25they studied videos to learn how to do
  37. 1:27it and and as she tells it and you see
  38. 1:30tonight on world news she's going to
  39. 1:31speak for the first time you will hear
  40. 1:33emotionally her reaction this girl who
  41. 1:36barely knows what it is to have a baby
  42. 1:40and her reaction when she sees this
  43. 1:42child that she's brought into this world
  44. 1:44it's so moving during that 18 years did
  45. 1:46she ever try to escape you know it it's
  46. 1:49such a complex always a complex prison
  47. 1:53without bars sometimes of the mind and
  48. 1:55here is the most inconceivable thing
  49. 1:58Elizabeth and chrisw has launched an
  50. 2:01investigation that is incredible 60
  51. 2:04times 60 not6 6 times officers of the
  52. 2:08law came to the door came to the house
  53. 2:11she was there in the backyard they
  54. 2:14didn't look or they didn't find her how
  55. 2:16is that possible that's what we were
  56. 2:18asking and we're going to tell you all
  57. 2:19about it on our special on Sunday night
  58. 2:22so bottom line when you talk to her and
  59. 2:24her mother I mean because this is a
  60. 2:26reunion between mother and daughter this
  61. 2:28the other half of this story of course
  62. 2:29is a mother whose daughter went missing
  63. 2:31for 18 years that's right has that been
  64. 2:33a bumpy road um that that well REM
  65. 2:37meting of sorts for both of them to keep
  66. 2:39up hope for 18 years imagine that bumpy
  67. 2:43no it was love and more love and joy and
  68. 2:48her mother's struggling but not about JC
  69. 2:51or her daughters just love wow all right
  70. 2:54Diane thank you so much you can see all
  71. 2:55of Diane's riveting an exclusive
  72. 2:57interview with JC Dugard this Sunday
  73. 2:59night at 9:00 8 central

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