Elizabeth Smart

will have been awful.

And you need to make sure you're both in a place that if she wants to talk to you, you can be in a place to hear it.

I am so grateful that they gave me that choice.

I actually asked my mom if she ever felt guilty about the window being left cracked open.

It wasn't like wide open.

She said no.

Because she was like, I didn't invite him into our home.

He broke into our home.

He violated our home.

That wasn't because I said, here, come on in, take my daughter.

I mean, even if you were 50 and it happened, like at the end of the day, so like my foundation, the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, one of our main programs is called Smart Defense, and it's a holistic...

approach to self-defense, trauma-informed, but it's a combination of Muay Thai, Krav Maga, Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

But my director, she is a five-time world champion in her weight class for Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

But she'll tell you, even with all of her training, she could still be raped tomorrow because at the end of the day, the only way for sexual violence to end, for rape to end, is for rapists to stop raping.

Yeah.

It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are.

Those details don't matter.

I mean, each one of us has survived our worst day.

There have been times in my life where I hate where I'm at or I don't like what I'm doing or I willingly signed up for a marathon and I'm at like mile 18 and I've hit the wall and I'm like, what the hell am I doing?

Why am I here?