"But I do feel like talking with Kara, you would never, ever, ever know that something massive and traumatic had ever happened to her."įorensics from that crime, however, linked the Lisk killings to the Sept. "I don't feel like it's triggering in the way it would put me down a deep, dark hole and I wouldn't be able to climb out again," noted the 35-year-old, who was kidnapped from her Utah home 19 days before Kara was taken in South Carolina. Kara previously teamed with Elizabeth Smart, whose own harrowing survival tale was dramatized in 2017's I Am Elizabeth Smart, to produce a documentary about her ordeal, and the pair joined forces once again to ensure that Kara's story was told by Lifetime as she saw fit.Īsked if watching her friend's story play out onscreen triggered her own memories, Elizabeth told E!, "I do know what it felt like to be there personally, but then to have it be about someone that I care very much about, it is quite emotional for me in that sense. So for me, going through the process, my trauma was in a box over here, and I was existing, working on the movie, over here, and there wasn't a lot of overlap." Meaning, she continued, "I don't feel I have those typical trauma responses of having PTSD or feeling triggered or having flashbacks. Enter teenage Kara ( Katie Douglas), who sees Debra and utters one word: "Mom?" Particularly, she recalled, while watching the moment where her mom Debra (played by Cara Buono) bursts into the police station asking where her daughter is. But watching her story unfold in its entirety-from being abducted from her friend's front yard by Richard Evonitz to being reunited with her family after she managed to escape 18 hours later-stirred up some feelings she wasn't expecting. 11 premiere of Lifetime's The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story. "The filming was filling in gaps in my first-person memory."Īs an author and advocate for trauma survivors, she's spoken extensively about her experience. "The way that my memory of the trauma functions, it's like snapshots in a flipbook-and there are some pages missing," the now 36-year-old mother of two exclusively told E! News' Francesca Amiker ahead of the Feb. Kara Robinson Chamberlain doesn't remember every second of being held captive by a suspected serial killer almost 21 years ago.
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