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Stunning Moments From Diane Sawyer's Interview With Jaycee Dugard — Transcript

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  1. 0:00more of Diane's stunning exclusive
  2. 0:01interview with JC Dugard she tells her
  3. 0:03story in a new book it's out tomorrow
  4. 0:05it's called a stolen Life from her
  5. 0:08kidnapping at age 11 held captive for 18
  6. 0:11years while running away was never an
  7. 0:14option and how she hopes to move
  8. 0:17forward did you think about taking those
  9. 0:20two girls and
  10. 0:21running I'm sure I
  11. 0:24did but it wasn't something I felt I
  12. 0:28could do because the situation felt
  13. 0:33like wasn't an
  14. 0:37option I don't know how else to explain
  15. 0:40it there was no leaving what would it
  16. 0:44have
  17. 0:45taken for you to believe you could leave
  18. 0:48I've asked myself that question many
  19. 0:50times the Mind
  20. 0:54manipulation plus the physical abuse I
  21. 0:57suffered in the
  22. 0:58beginning there was no leaving maybe if
  23. 1:02one of the girls were being hurt and
  24. 1:05everyone who thinks that that maternal
  25. 1:08impulse would just scoop them up to run
  26. 1:10doesn't they were safe I was being told
  27. 1:13that the outside world was
  28. 1:16dangerous ironically enough filled with
  29. 1:18rapists and pedopiles pedophiles I
  30. 1:20couldn't protect them out there I it's
  31. 1:23like what I knew was safe the unknown
  32. 1:28that was out there was
  33. 1:31terrifying especially when thinking
  34. 1:34about the girls do you think he'll ever
  35. 1:36understand it why you didn't leave I
  36. 1:39don't think so it wasn't until two
  37. 1:42suspicious campus police officers
  38. 1:44uncovered the truth that JC was reunited
  39. 1:47with her mother after 18 torturous years
  40. 1:51they're like you can see your mom and
  41. 1:52I'm like I can I can see my
  42. 1:56mom it was like a question to them you
  43. 1:59know I can you're at the office the
  44. 2:02phone rings unbelievable absolutely
  45. 2:05unbelievable and then it was disbelief I
  46. 2:08said no you're joking don't don't do
  47. 2:10this to me this is not funny and I
  48. 2:12remember I remember you
  49. 2:16shouting my
  50. 2:18daughter and I was crying you know when
  51. 2:21you're crying and you can't
  52. 2:23speak I just said come quick I remember
  53. 2:26saying come come quick and I remember
  54. 2:28telling you I'm coming baby I'm
  55. 2:30[Music]
  56. 2:32coming and then I said I said something
  57. 2:34about having babies I didn't mean I had
  58. 2:37babies I mean I had had babies and it
  59. 2:39was I didn't know what to say it was
  60. 2:42like unbelievable and when you heard she
  61. 2:44had daughters babies oh I'm thinking
  62. 2:47babies okay I can deal with this those
  63. 2:51babies were by now 15 and 11 the first
  64. 2:56night the police officer let them stay
  65. 2:58in a motel Jason wants her mother and
  66. 3:01sister so much she can't sleep I woke
  67. 3:04the girls up and I just said I'm so
  68. 3:06happy I'm so happy I'm like I can't wait
  69. 3:09anymore I don't care if they're sleeping
  70. 3:11and so I ran down the hall I forgot the
  71. 3:13motel key I walked in I'm so happy I'm
  72. 3:15so
  73. 3:17happy so happy and stunningly even now 2
  74. 3:21years later with all that time lost she
  75. 3:24insists life is too short for a moment
  76. 3:26of bitterness or rage I don't feel like
  77. 3:29I have this rage inside of me that's
  78. 3:32building why
  79. 3:34not how can you not I refuse to let him
  80. 3:38have that he can't have me meanwhile now
  81. 3:42free JC told Diane every day is an
  82. 3:45amazing new chapter so tell me about
  83. 3:48learning to drive you drive God I do
  84. 3:51Drive I drive very
  85. 3:53safely I go to park and I get out I'm
  86. 3:57like oh God I did really good and my
  87. 3:59mom's like
  88. 4:00but look where you parked and I was like
  89. 4:01taking two spaces she even makes a Ry
  90. 4:04joke about her impossibly young skin
  91. 4:07saying how about years of no son yeah
  92. 4:11yeah it's how to preserve
  93. 4:14yourself that's the kind of humor I use
  94. 4:16to you know get by and as remarkable as
  95. 4:21her recovery seems to be so far she's
  96. 4:23still learning to adapt part of the
  97. 4:25therapy led by Rebecca Bailey riding and
  98. 4:28caring for hes
  99. 4:30I mean maybe I believe in a higher power
  100. 4:33but I believe in nature and what we see
  101. 4:37around us as healing you know and and
  102. 4:40yes she is remarkable I'm not I I will I
  103. 4:42will give that I'm confident that the
  104. 4:46community and the support that she has
  105. 4:49put around her since she has come out
  106. 4:52will carry her through whatever bumps in
  107. 4:57the road she hits and I think she has a
  108. 4:59lot to teach all of us I want to find
  109. 5:02love one day the kind of love I read
  110. 5:05about still want that I don't know I
  111. 5:08don't really think about it I'm happy
  112. 5:10the way my life is now I mean if it
  113. 5:12happens it happens if it doesn't I'll
  114. 5:15still be happy but it doesn't seem
  115. 5:19impossible after what you've been
  116. 5:20through no it doesn't seem
  117. 5:23impossible really loved when ji and her
  118. 5:25mother were on the porch with Diane the
  119. 5:27way that they looked at each other and
  120. 5:29JC said when she had her first daughter
  121. 5:31at age 14 in captivity that she didn't
  122. 5:34feel alone anymore when she had her baby
  123. 5:36and I and I and I also just that phrase
  124. 5:38that simple phrase he can't have me so
  125. 5:42much strength in that phrase yeah it's
  126. 5:44not too late to see all of dian's
  127. 5:46exclusive interview with JC Dugard you
  128. 5:48can head to our website to watch the
  129. 5:49full Prime Time special

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