“If you happen to lived underneath intimidation and threats continuously, you already know, what would you do? I believe Elizabeth turned inside and survived,” Ed informed Katie Couric on Dateline in October 2003 through the household’s first TV sit-down since Elizabeth got here residence. Each community had been angling for the massive interview, and NBC acquired it as a part of a bundle cope with Doubleday, which was publishing the Smarts’ ebook. (CBS, nevertheless, aired the primary TV film, The Elizabeth Good Story, that November.)
He added, “They had been 9 months that you simply could not think about ever taking place in your life, ever. To assume that any individual would come into the home and take her was simply, one thing you could not consider would ever occur.”
Neither her mother and father nor Elizabeth, nonetheless shy of her sixteenth birthday, went into very a lot element about what she endured. “I believe there’s some issues totally different about me,” the teenager stated, “however I believe I am nonetheless just about the identical individual.”
Mitchell had compelled her to maintain a journal, although he’d largely inform her what to put in writing in it. In her personal present of secret rebel, Good would make notes in French expressing her true emotions concerning the scenario.
Requested what among the finest issues about being residence was, she stated, “Um, simply being again and never having to be, like, informed I am a horrible, evil, depraved, evil, evil lady each 10 seconds.”
