Elizabeth Smart

Yeah.

If I managed to survive this, if I ever made it back to civilization, would I just become a pariah?

Oh, my God.

Like, how could anyone have anything to do with me once they knew the truth?

I wanted to, but then also what would happen if I ever got married and on my wedding night, my husband's like, what the hell, Elizabeth?

Now as an adult and someone who's been in this field now for a long time, unfortunately, when you do hear about a kidnapping, you just automatically assume they've been raped.

And at the time I was like, oh, no one's going to know.

Right.

Yeah, of course.

Right.

That was probably naive of me to think that.

I mean, actually, at that point, we weren't even in the robes.

Because we hitchhiked back from California and my captors were like, no one will pick us up hitchhiking if we're in the robes.

Yeah.

I mean, it was like the library all over again.

Yeah, exactly.

That has to be your assumption.

Or he could kill me.

Or he could go after my family.

And, I mean, I had a captor on either side of me, like, physically touching me.