Elizabeth Smart

So I hope, I mean, I hope they don't ever experience it.

Like, I would rather have them not fully understand it and not experience it than have to experience it to fully understand it.

I think it's important to understand, though, because even the people in it, or people who will never be in it, I think there are things that people on the outside can even be looking for, don't you think?

Oh, 100%.

Of watching someone else get groomed.

100%.

But I mean, so what my captors did is, I mean, right from the word go, they...

took away everything that was important to me, everything that was like a pillar in my life.

So they, I mean, they kidnapped me away from my home.

So they took away my, my family.

They took away, you know, my, my security.

They took away my friends, my school, even like silly things like my clothes.

Well, I don't actually think that's so silly, but yeah.

They took away all my freedom.

So that was, you know, they took away that.

They took away and then things, they went to like the mental level as well.

Whereas... They took your name.

They took my name.

They took like my religion, something that I held very honestly sacred to me.

And they twisted it and twisted it and twisted it.