Elizabeth Smart was 14 years old when kidnappers grabbed her from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 and abused her for nine months — now, at age 38, she’s revisiting that nightmare and the media frenzy around it in a new Netflix documentary, Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart , due Jan. 21. “I wanted to have some ownership over my story,” she said in a statement. “After I was rescued, when I first got home, I did not want to talk about what happened with anyone.”

Testifying at kidnapper Brian David Mitchell’s trial years later changed her perspective. “I remember sitting up on the stand, giving these answers, and feeling like there was no context around them,” she said. “I remember thinking that if all of this was going to be out there anyway, I wanted it to have some meaning, and for it to se

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