Elizabeth Smart

But after today, you can't cry.

It has to end.

Of course, it didn't end.

I mean, I kept crying, but...

He's also like, you can never speak about your family again.

You're starting a new life now.

So you really can only talk about this moment forward.

They had changed my name.

They had basically tried to strip me of any and all identity that I ever had.

And so at that point, it seemed pretty clear to me that they didn't plan on giving me back or letting me go, that they planned on keeping me for a long time.

I hope that in 2021, most people have a better understanding for me.

how they could take control of a young, innocent 14-year-old girl and make you feel like you had no options.

I mean, I know, though, early on, a lot of people, it makes me sick, like, gave you grief for, why didn't you scream?

Why didn't you walk away?

But there was a man in your home.

Like, to me, to believe that he would hurt your family or go back is, like, even me, again, I think I was totally different at 14.

I was, like, already a crime junkie.

But I would have believed it.

Like, you got in there once.

I think you would...