tough. she knew how to handle things. hannah also explained those 13 calls her abductor made to her at school right before he kidnapped her. the phone calls weren t phone calls. they were texts because he was picking me up from cheer camp and he didn t know the address or where i was. i had to tell him the address and be in the gym and not in front of the school just so he knew where to come get me. hannah would not talk about what happened in the idaho woods. that part of her story is still under investigation. but she did have this to say to her critics. you are who you are. you shouldn t let people change that. and you ll have your own opinion on yourself and other people s opinion shouldn t matter. hannah is now focused on getting back to life as a typical 16-year-old high school student.
idaho mountains on august 10th spoke to nbc. she spoke about why she went online to answer people s questions about her murdered mother and brother and about her gratitude to her supporters. but she would not go into the details offer captivity. however, hannah did explain past letters as well as 13 phone calls from the day of her abduction that search warrants say she exchanged with her kidnapper, longtime family friend, james dimaggio. the phone calls weren t phone calls. they were texts, because he was picking me up from cheer camp, and he didn t know the address or like, where i was, so i had to tell him the address and tell him that i was going to be in the gym and not in front of the school, just so he knew where to come get me. and the letters were from like a year ago when me and my mom weren t get along very well, me and him would talk about how to deal with it, and i would tell him how i felt about it and he would help me through it. they weren t anything bad.
this is not going to happen at ft. leavenworth. it s an all-male prison. i just got off the phone with some officials just a few minutes ago who said, look, right now, and he is still in the body of a man, and placement at leaven swort based on gender, and right now there is just no provision for this. he s going to have to go outside the system to make this happen. all right. chris lawrence reporting live from the pentagon this morning. also this morning we re hearing from hannah anderson in her first interview since being freed from her kidnapper in the idaho wilderness. hannah says she wants to defuse whispers over some curious details that have emerged. they include the cell phone records showing she and her kidnapper, james dimaggio, trading 13 messages on the day she vanished. here s what hannah told nbc s today show. the phone calls weren t phone calls. they were texts because he was picking me up from cheer camp and he didn t know the address or, like, where i was so, i h