Nigel Brennan

As I'm then bundled into the back seat next to Amanda and then Abdullah jumps in beside me and Jamal jumps in beside Amanda.

And I'm obviously looking at Amanda.

She's got some swelling starting to happen on her face where she's obviously been punched or hit with something fairly solid.

She's got this stupid smile on her face and she looks at me with this big grin and she goes, fuck, that was intense.

Just say, yeah, fuck, that was intense.

And she's like, Nigel, I'm so sorry I made you escape.

And I said, Amanda, you didn't make me do anything.

That was a decision we both made.

And that was a decision, I think, from my perspective, I was like, for five months, I felt like I had zero control.

And I felt like that I was pretty sure after five months that I was going to die in Somalia.

And it was, for me...

I was like, if I'm going to die, I'm not just going to take a bullet to the back of the head.

I'm actually going to make people work for it.

You're going to have to work to take my life.

And I said to Amanda, you didn't make me do anything.

For 25 minutes or whatever it was, we basically had taken back control.

And it felt so powerful to basically be in control for such a short period of time.

Even the next few weeks, it was just intense.

Like being woken up in the middle of the night with a torch and five AK-47s like literally in my face.

And I'm just like, what's going on?