Jaycee Dugard on Hopes for Her Daughters — Transcript

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1. 0:00Back now with the remarkable story of JC
2. 0:02Duggard. Of course, she's the young
3. 0:03woman kidnapped when she was just 11
4. 0:04years old, held captive for 18 years,
5. 0:07and she survived unspeakable abuse, gave
6. 0:09birth to two children in a hidden
7. 0:11backyard. Dian first book her 5 years
8. 0:14ago. And now JC has a new book, Freedom,
9. 0:16My Book, a first. It is out July 12th,
10. 0:18and she's taking Diane inside the new
11. 0:20life she's making for herself and her
12. 0:22family.
13. 0:24This was JC Lee Duggard when her
14. 0:26childhood was stolen. This was JC Lee
15. 0:29Duggard five years ago when she talked
16. 0:31to me after her rescue.
17. 0:32My world changed in an instant.
18. 0:35And this is JC Lee Duggard today.
19. 0:39Reemerging out of her privacy with
20. 0:41lessons she's learned in the past 5
21. 0:43years.
22. 0:44Thank you.
23. 0:44About transforming suffering into joy
24. 0:47every single day.
25. 0:50It's taken a lot of time and it hasn't
26. 0:53hasn't come overnight. You know, you
27. 0:55have to put in the hard work and cry and
28. 0:58for sure laugh about everything that you
29. 1:00can.
30. 1:01Her two girls born in that backyard now
31. 1:03all grown up and thriving.
32. 1:06They're so resilient and they're
33. 1:08beautiful and loving.
34. 1:10She's protecting their privacy. Some of
35. 1:12their friends don't even know their
36. 1:14history. And if you met them, you'd be
37. 1:16stunned by their vibrance, their
38. 1:18curiosity, and independence. She says
39. 1:20she wasn't going to let her fear limit
40. 1:23her children's lives.
41. 1:24Do we scare our kids into never wanting
42. 1:27to do anything? Or do we prepare them
43. 1:30for the worst in life, never knowing if,
44. 1:33you know, if it's really going to
45. 1:34happen?
46. 1:35Do you still call him their dad, which
47. 1:36you did 5 years ago?
48. 1:38When I refer to him, no. I think I've
49. 1:40been calling him Phillip lately,
50. 1:42actually. You know, when we do talk
51. 1:44about him,
52. 1:45Terry Probin, JC's mother,
53. 1:47if the girls say someday they want to go
54. 1:51see him.
55. 1:59Can't bear that.
56. 2:00It's their decision.
57. 2:02I would hope they would choose not to.
58. 2:06Do you worry at some point they'll want
59. 2:07to see him?
60. 2:08I want them to make their own choices in
61. 2:10life. And if that's something that they
62. 2:11need to do, then
63. 2:12really you'd be okay with that?
64. 2:13I wouldn't be okay with it, but I
65. 2:15wouldn't not let them do it.
66. 2:18Boy, what a wrenching situation that
67. 2:20would be. And you can see a lot more of
68. 2:21Diane Sawyer's exclusive interview with
69. 2:23Jason Duggard. It's on a special edition
70. 2:24of 2020 Tonight at 10 Eastern, 9
71. 2:27Central. Of course, that's here on ABC.