Elizabeth Smart: I didn't want my Jayme Closs Lifetime special to be exploitative

New York Post

Smart will discuss fellow kidnapping victim, 14-year-old Jayme Closs, on Saturday's special Smart Justice: The Jayme Closs Case. "I was hesitant about doing her story,” says Smart, who was 14 when she was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 and held captive for nine months. “I wanted to be respectful and protective of her family," she said. "I told Lifetime, ‘If I was to consider doing this, I would in no way want to go into her story because if she ever decides to share it, that is completely up to her. That’s not what it is at all.’"