Almost 10 years after her own kidnap nightmare, Elizabeth Smart opened up about her harrowing experience and the abuse she endured at the hands of her captor to a crowd of 700 people at the Child Protection Awareness Event.

Now 24, the Utah native was 14 when she was snatched at knife-point from her bedroom in 2002 by Brian David Mitchell, who sexually assaulted her almost daily during her nine month captivity.

Elizabeth Smart cried this week while speaking publicly about her harrowing ordeal at the hands of a kidnapper, and RadarOnline.com has the moving video.

The 24-year-old spoke at the Salt Lake City Rotary Club on Tuesday about the night she was kidnapped in 2002 at knifepoint from her home by Brian David Mitchell.  She is working with the Elizabeth Smart Foundation and the program RadKIDS that empowers children to protect themselves from danger. 

“He went straight from marrying me to raping me. And after that moment I couldn’t feel more worthless and more degraded,” she said as she wiped tears away from her eyes. “It was the worse feeling I could have ever felt.”