Jaycee Dugard, the courageous 29-year-old woman who spent 18 years in captivity, has broken her silence in a new set of exclusive home videos on ABC’s Good Morning America. (More clips will air on 20/20 and Nightline.) Check it out:
“Hi. I’m Jaycee,” Jaycee says to the camera. “I want to thank you for your support and I’m doing well … It’s been a long haul, but I’m getting there.”
And she does seem to be living a pretty normal life, as the videos show her baking cookies and laughing a lot with her mother and half-sister, Shayna, 19.
“We released this video so that you can see that we’re happy and well and when we have more to share we will,” Terry Probyn, Jaycee’s 50-year-old mother, says of the clips. Still, she knows how fragile Jaycee is and doesn’t want the press to overwhelm her. “As a mother I am pleading for our privacy in this very public story.”
Terry does most of the talking on the home videos. She thanks supporters for “all the love and support” they’ve shown these past few months and says, more than once, that they want to be left alone “during our healing process.” It seems as though these videos are a peace offering, as if to say, here’s an inside look — and that should be enough for you.
I’m just glad to see that Jaycee’s doing well!
