Elizabeth Smart

I think one of the things that I don't hear talked about a lot, people relate it so specifically to Elizabeth thought, you know, these people would kill her or her family, which is 100% true.

But I think it speaks to something bigger.

And I'm interested if you agree on women.

feeling like they can be believed.

I mean, so much of your story is about being a sexual assault survivor.

And I think one of the biggest issues is it doesn't matter if the person's sitting next to you.

There is this inherent fear, I think, in so many victims that I will come forward.

I will tell this truth of how I was broken and no one's going to believe me.

And I think that's still something that women, even men, victims are suffering from constantly.

Yeah.

Oh, that is the number one comment that I get through speaking, through meeting with survivors, through the foundation and the different initiatives that we work on.

That is the number one comment that we get is that no one believes me.

Or I'm afraid to tell people because I don't think anyone will believe me.

Or because they know who did this and they like them, they won't believe me.

I mean, it is so common.

I mean, we have a whole campaign built around that.

It's our November through December campaign.

And it's called We Believe You.

And it's encouraging the public to take this pledge because...

If you haven't experienced, I hope, I hope the majority of people listening to this podcast, I hope they haven't experienced rape or sexual violence or kidnapping or domestic abuse.