i struggled with enormous poverty, i went hungry very often. i was 17, i did not know anything about the world, but really it was emotionally, really that was the real difficult piece of it to just, after being raised in a cloistered, isolated world to find myself in a big city where i didn t know anybody. feeling completely lost and in limbo. i just felt abandoned and isolated and i was just in a really rough place. katie: meanwhile, lea says she had a heartbreaking and terrifying experience when she was living on her own. we ll talk about that and the new life she s made for herself when we come back. announcer: up next, just when she thought she found someone she could trust, lea faces the ultimate betrayal. that was really the end of my ife.