kylie moore gilbert in melbourne, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. it is pretty much a year and a half now since you were released from imprisonment in iran. how much distance do you now feel from that whole experience? it feels sometimes like it never happened. it feels like it was a very lengthy, especially vivid nightmare that ijust dreamt one night when i was asleep and have woken up the next day, and i still have those memories of that nightmare lingering with me. but because i m in the same familiarspaces, back at my home that i was in before i went to iran, sometimes i have to pinch myself and remind myself that i ve actually gone through that terrible ordeal and that experience in real life. you did say a little while ago, you said when you first released, you think that you re going to be shattered, you re going to be broken but actually, that s not really true. from my experience, at least, you say the
after 804 days behind bars. is it possible to heal after such a shattering ordeal? kylie moore gilbert in melbourne, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. it is pretty much a year and a half now since you were released from imprisonment in iran. how much distance do you now feel from that whole experience? it feels sometimes like it never happened. it feels like it was a very lengthy, especially vivid nightmare that ijust dreamt one night when i was asleep and have woken up the next day, and i still have those memories of that nightmare lingering with me. but because i m in the same familiarspaces, back at my home that i was in before i went to iran, sometimes i have to pinch myself and remind myself that i ve actually gone through that terrible ordeal and that experience in real life. you did say a little while ago, you said when you first released, you think that you re going to be shattered, you re going to be brok
nine, i was ecstatic. i was so happy to be free. i was on this incredible high for probably six months. i was completely unfazed and unflappable by anything or anyone, and i wasjust glorying in my freedom and luxuriating in the feeling that almost as though i d been reborn, and that was just an incredible feeling. i didn t have any negative mental health implications because of that. and actually, it was covid, it was a huge lockdown that we went into in melbourne midway through last year that put paid to those feelings of euphoria and sort of brought me back down to earth again. and, you know, ifaced being locked in my own home alone. so there were definitely echoes reminiscent of my time in prison, although, obviously, being in your own home is infinitely preferable to being locked in a prison cell.
that when i first came back from iran, i wasjust on cloud nine, i was ecstatic. i was so happy to be free. i was on this incredible high for probably six months. i was completely unfazed and unflappable by anything or anyone, and i wasjust glorying in my freedom and luxuriating in the feeling that almost as though i d been reborn, and that was just an incredible feeling. i didn t have any negative mental health implications because of that. and actually, it was covid, it was a huge lockdown that we went into in melbourne midway through last year that put paid to those feelings of euphoria and sort of brought me back down to earth again. and, you know, ifaced being locked in my own home alone. so there were definitely echoes reminiscent of my time in prison, although, obviously, being in your own home is infinitely preferable
for probably six months. i was completely unfazed and unflappable by anything or anyone, and i wasjust glorying in my freedom and luxuriating in the feeling that almost as though i d been reborn, and that was just an incredible feeling. i didn t have any negative mental health implications because of that. and actually, it was covid, it was a huge lockdown that we went into in melbourne midway through last year that put paid to those feelings of euphoria and sort of brought me back down to earth again. and, you know, ifaced being locked in my own home alone. so there were definitely echoes reminiscent of my time in prison, although, obviously, being in your own home is infinitely preferable to being locked in a prison cell. and that was a wake up call to me and just sort of brought me back down to earth and made me grapple a bit more