‘I didn’t feel human’: Elizabeth Smart speaks out about 2002 abduction

‘I didn’t feel human’: Elizabeth Smart speaks out about 2002 abduction, Smart was kidnapped from her Utah bedroom in 2002 and then held for nine months by homeless street preacher Brian David Mitchell and his wife. 'To her, I was a slave, and to him, I was an object,' the 25-year-old tells NBC News in an upcoming interview.

Onetime teen kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart has spoken out about the hell she lived through a decade ago after she was kidnapped from her Utah bedroom and held captive by a homeless street preacher and his wife.

Smart, 25, spoke to NBC News' Meredith Vieira for a special program set to air Friday. In it, the missing children's advocate and author describes how, at 14, Brian David Mitchell snatched her from her bedroom at knifepoint on June 5, 2002, and then kept her prisoner for nine months.

Elizabeth Smart, now 25, at a children's sexual abuse conference in 2012.

Smart was raped daily, chained up and dressed in disguise as Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, trekked from Utah to Southern California and back.

"To her, I was a slave, and to him, I was an object," Smart told Vieira, according to NBC News.