To Hell and Again: The Not possible Resilience of Elizabeth Good

“If you happen to lived beneath intimidation and threats consistently, you realize, what would you do? I believe Elizabeth turned inside and survived,” Ed told Katie Couric on Dateline in October 2003 through the household’s first TV sit-down since Elizabeth got here house. Each community had been angling for the massive interview, and NBC received it as a part of a package deal cope with Doubleday, which was publishing the Smarts’ e-book. (CBS, nonetheless, 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 occurring in your life, ever. To assume that someone would come into the home and take her was simply, one thing you could not imagine would ever occur.”

Neither her dad and mom nor Elizabeth, nonetheless shy of her 16th 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 particular person.”

Mitchell had compelled her to maintain a journal, although he’d largely inform her what to jot down in it. In her personal present of secret rebel, Good would make notes in French expressing her true emotions concerning the scenario.

Requested what the most effective issues about being house was, she stated, “Um, simply being again and never having to be, like, informed I am a horrible, evil, depraved, evil, evil woman each 10 seconds.”