Elizabeth Smart discussed the details of her horrific kidnapping ordeal in a new interview with Meredith Viera.  

Over a decade after her terrifying experience, Elizabeth Smart is a married young woman who has written a book, and her captors are in jail.  Safe from her kidnappers and given the opportunity to heal, she is sharing her experiences with the world in a new interview.

In the Meredith Viera interview, Elizabeth Smart describes how she tried to reason with her kidnapper Brian David Mitchell: "If you're going to rape and kill me, will you please just do it here so that my parents can find my body?"

Mitchell "just smiled at me and said "I'm not going to kill you yet.""

Smart's attempts at reasoning with her kidnapper didn't help her: "Don't you know what you're doing- you're going to get caught and you're going to go to jail for the rest of your life!"

Mitchell told her: "I know exactly what I'm doing. The only difference is I'm not going to get caught."

Elizabeth Smart and her kidnapper arrived at a campsite, where they met Mitchell's wife Wanda Barzee.  Barzee performed a makeshift wedding ceremony between Mitchell and Smart.

"I was begging and crying and just so scared."

"I knew what happened after a wedding."

Elizabeth Smart told Meredith Viera in her interview that tried to reason with her captors yet again: "Wait I didn't say I do. I didn't say yes. I'm just a little girl, you know I'm so little I haven't even hit puberty yet."

Unfortunately for Smart, her attempts at reasoning with her kidnappers did not prevent what happened next: "He raped me right there on the floor of the tent and then when he was finished I was left alone feeling absolutely broken absolutely shattered. I was broken beyond repair."

"Everytime I thought "OK this cannot get worse," it always did."

Elizabeth Smart said in her interview that "There was a point that I stopped crying.  It's not just because I didn't feel pain any more, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live."

For Elizabeth Smart, the only escape during her ordeal was sleep: "Sleep was like my oasis- the place I could go to. If I could've slept for nine months, I would have."

In the interview, Smart said that she recieved a sign from God in the form of a cold cup of water in her tent - days after they had run out of water.

Elizabeth Smart was almost recognized on one occasion, but she was too scared to cry out when approached by a police officer.  She convinced Mitchell that they should go back to Utah, where she felt she would be recognized more easily.  Smart was eventually recognized, and her ordeal was finally over.

Watch Elizabeth Smart interview video here: