Elizabeth Smart

So there was one moment in the autobiography that the A&E won where this man who was at a party with you starts crying.

And he's like, you know, I want to apologize to her.

I should have done more.

I should have asked more questions.

And where I kind of got really caught up in my own head was, what is the balance?

You know, on our show, we always say, you know, be weird, be rude, stay alive.

Right.

But what is the balance between, like, something was off, right?

Like, seeing something that's off and pushing, but also not pushing so hard that you're not respecting, like, if you hadn't been kidnapped, you know, you're somebody who you would have told him, no, I'm not Elizabeth Smart.

No, like, leave me alone, leave me alone, leave me alone.

Where's the line between, like...

continually pushing and then disrespecting someone's actual will.

Do you just know in your gut when something is wrong and you report it?

Again, I totally spiraled out and I don't know if there's an answer.

To that man on the documentary, he shouldn't feel bad.

My captors, they would never have let anyone help me.

They would have killed me before that happened and they would have killed anyone they had to before that happened.

And I mean, I know, like, I remember after I got home, my mom kept telling me, well, Elizabeth, you know, your story was the biggest story since Charles Lindbergh's baby son was kidnapped.

Your search was the biggest search that's ever been put on since the baby Lindbergh disappeared.

Like that's a huge period of time.