Ingrid Betancourt released after six years

captive in Columba jungle. I'm watching Larry King and trying to find out how she got captured. Was there a plane crash?

Her children are grown now. A son and daughter. They are higher spiritual beings. She's back in Paris and is French.

Six years ago she told her pre-captives "No more kidnappings". They didn't listen.

February 23, 2002, on the day she was taken. She was in her presidential campaign and she wanted to go Samisendi because the people there were major supporters. They offered her space for negotiations so the peace talks could go on between her group and the government. After the peace talks there was retaliation. She was grabbed going there and held captive for six years. She was a presidential candidate at the time. She thought their objective was to kill her. She was surprised she lived. Clara Rohouse her vice presidential candidate at the time was freed before her. I think early on.

Horrors she experienced? "Some things have to be left in the jungle". She replies.
Her worse thing was realizing human beings can be so horrible to other human beings. She was in the jungle the whole time and they moved her around a lot. You never know what's going to happen to you. There were other captives there with her and they feel like family and she is so glad they are all out. She feels very fortunate to be free.

She tried to escape at one point and even got the jump on those holding her captive.

Her children were her reason for living, she was desperate to see them again. She was in Bogata. She had bug bits for over six years. It was hell for mind, body and soul. All were physically and mentally tortured. There were no medical services provided.

She was the only woman with other men. No privacy. She tried to escape and thought she was lucky not to die. They got out of the camp and then incredible things happened to them. At the end her companion was ill with diabetes. They had to choose between going on or he losing his life.

She feels on another planet now. She feels distance from that life and this life now. She doesn't want to forget but she wants to forgive. She was punished for the escape attempt. And said it was horrible and will not talk to Larry King about it. She didn't see anyone else killed.

On the rescue day they took of chains and they had to pack. And they waited all morning. There was a helicopter coming with international commission. They thought that the captives would be taken in helicopter to another place and talk to a higher commander. They didn't know what to expect. The helicopter landed with five guys and a woman. They didn't match watch they were expecting. Their Spanish had a strange accent. Their keeper was very cruel. The guy in the helicopter hugged her captor so they knew there was no release there. Because they appeared as friends and there was a camera. She thought she was just be recorded and moved and she was very depressed and some of her companions were angered. All captors were armed and they wanted to handcuff them as they got into the helicopters.

Then the guy, the leader, in the plane was full of energy and said "This is the Colombian army and you are free now".

Through all of it, she never lost her faith and feels god was with her the whole time. And she prays everyday. She prays they all are free. The helicopter ride was so long and she was afraid the helicopter would crash. The ride was only three minutes.

She doesn't like the word politician. She feels it's negative. She wants to be available and it doesn't mean that she wants to run for office again. She is not saying it won't happen. But it's not the same now. She has changed in the way to relates to people and how she reacts to things. Her goals in life have changed. What remains is her desire to help other. She could hear her mother's voice on the radio each day. Her mother was fine. It was as if time didn't touch her mother.

The end of the interview and the Larry King Show.