CRIME WATCH DAILY WITH CHRIS HANSEN” EXCLUSIVE
ELIZABETH SMART REVEALS DETAILS ABOUT HER HARROWING ABDUCTION AND ORDEAL
In an Emotional Interview with Sexual-Assault Survivor and Victim Advocate Daisy Coleman, Elizabeth Smart Reveals Her Own Personal Struggles During Her Time in Captivity
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (September 13, 2017) — Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen special correspondent Elizabeth Smart makes a revelation about her time in captivity when she sits down with fellow sexual-assault survivor and victim advocate Daisy Coleman in an emotional and intimate interview. “For me, because I grew up in a very conservative Christian neighborhood, the first time I was raped I remember feeling devastated. I felt like it would be better to be dead than to continue living being a rape victim, being a rape survivor…I felt in that moment if there had been an easy way out, I probably would have taken it,” Smart reveals. Daisy also describes how incessant bullying impacted how she coped with her trauma. “The bullying was really intense because it didn’t just end at school…when I would go home, it would be all over the internet. These people are able to say a lot crueler of things because it’s such a dehumanized way of speaking…because you’re talking to a computer screen and not a real person, but a real person is receiving that message…a lot of things affected how I looked at myself and my idea of self-worth,” describes Coleman. “It’s so ridiculous when you see anything on the news and some people’s first comments are questions like ‘What was she wearing? What was she doing?’…It doesn’t matter. It literally doesn’t matter if you are dancing around naked completely drunk. Nobody has the right to hurt you,” adds Smart. Smart also describes the confusing experience she was subjected to after her rescue. “Nobody told me what was going on. One second I was being reunited with my parents, the next second I was being questioned, the next second, they take me up to the hospital that then they’re like, ‘Oh, take off your clothes. Oh, let’s do this kit on you.’ Nobody was really telling me anything and I remember when they were doing the rape kit, I just remember thinking, ‘What’s going on?’” To help other survivors, Daisy and her two friends, who are survivors themselves, along with her brother started a support group called “Safe Bae,” whose mission is to raise awareness about sexual assault in middle and high schools and students’ rights under Title IX.
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