Stephanie Browitt

What was the response like once you posted that stuff?

I think a lot of people who've been listening will be wondering all along, what on earth was that cruise ship company doing?

when it told you, your dad and your sister and everyone else who went on the trip that it would be a tremendous idea to take you all out to one of the most dangerous islands in the world that had just had its alert level raised to a level two with the threat of an eruption.

What on earth were they thinking?

I know that thought occurred to both you and your mum as well.

And so you pursued the company through the courts in Miami, where Royal Caribbean, the ship company, was based.

Now, they tried to argue that no one could have foreseen such an event before.

but your lawyers had managed to retrieve evidence from your sister's phone, which had been found on the island.

Tell me what was on the phone and why that didn't work out so well for the company.

Despite your condition and your mum's MS, the company insisted that you come all the way out to Miami to be medically inspected there.

But in the end, on the very eve of the scheduled trial, they agreed to settle with you.

Why do you think they were so quick to settle with you just before the evidence of all this was put to a jury, Steph?

60 Minutes did a very sympathetic report on how you've survived throughout all of this, and they filmed you taking off the pressure mask that you've been wearing all that time.

How did you prepare for that moment on 60 Minutes?

There was that lovely moment when Sarah Abba said to you, after you took your compression head mask off, she just said, oh, Steph, you're beautiful.

How did that feel for you?

On the anniversary, you went back to New Zealand for a commemorative service, which was very, very moving.

And you got to meet those men with the helicopter who'd rescued you and your dad.

How did that commemorative service make you feel going through that, particularly the one with the local Maori people?

I get this feeling, despite the strangeness and the trauma of everything that's happened to you, there's a deep sanity within you, Stephanie.