Elizabeth Smart

It's the rest of the world.

And it was someone else's choice that put this on you.

And how f***ing dare they have done that?

But it has nothing to do with who you are and you as a person and who you still can be and who you still are, even though that person feels completely different than the one that was there before this happened to.

No, I think it was wonderful what you hit on.

So can you talk to us a little bit, though, about how you made the decision to like, I've got to get back to Salt Lake?

And specifically, I think there was like some renewed like public interest to it.

Like, it's weird to me how this like played hand in hand, right?

Like there was like this article that came out about you.

You are getting yourself back to Salt Lake.

And it was like all of these things like lined up, but something that you had a big hand in to like make sure you got back safe.

Yeah.

So while we were in California, my captors, they actually did try to kidnap another girl.

Thank goodness they were not successful in it.

And so they started to say, well, California is clearly not the place we need to go to kidnap a girl.

We need to go somewhere else.

And they were talking about these big cities like New York and Boston.

And I just remember thinking, oh my goodness, like no one is ever going to recognize me there.

No one found me in Utah.

No one's found me in California.