Elizabeth Smart

If they thought I was innocent, they would not handcuff me.

And I was taken to the police station, which just seemed to confirm that.

I was like, I'm going to jail.

I'm going to prison.

Whereas I thought, you know, he had said, oh, you know, they want you.

Aren't you ready to go home?

Like he had mentioned home.

I thought he was going to take me home and he didn't.

So I was just like, oh, I've done.

I know I'm wrong.

I shouldn't have said anything.

I'm going to jail now.

When was the moment where you finally felt like you could like you could breathe again and you realized that it really was over?

when my dad came to the police station and he came into the room and he was hugging me.

And honestly, it was more like suffocating me, but it was in that moment.

I still didn't know what the future held, but I knew that it was gonna be okay because he was there and he was never gonna let another person hurt me the way that my two captors had hurt me the last nine months.

Nothing like a daddy's love.

Yeah.

What was it like for you in 2018 when Wanda got released?

What was that feeling for you?