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Elizabeth Smart told herself she would never make a movie about her kidnapping.
“I also said I was never going to write a book and I was never going to speak about it, and I have and do both,” Smart said in an interview with the Deseret News. “I think, honestly, I think everything’s kind of just come in steps and, I guess, levels.”
Smart was taken from her home on June 5, 2002, and was found alive on March 12, 2003, after nine brutal months of physical and sexual abuse.
In November, Smart will tell of the horrific circumstances she endured and her miraculous rescue through the Lifetime movie “I Am Elizabeth Smart,” which she narrates and helped produce.
Smart said she had received several offers through the years to make a film, but she never felt like it was quite the right time.
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