EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jaycee Lee Dugard Has Started Writing Book Says Pastor
Posted on Feb 12, 2010 @ 01:17PM
As RadarOnline.com reported earlier, Jaycee Lee Dugard and her family are in such financial straits that a local church is paying her rent. Now, RadarOnline.com has learned that she is currently keeping a journal for a new book which will hopefully offset some of her family's financial woes.
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“She has a diary and a time line and she has started to make notes and her main message is: I want to be free – I want to be free," Pastor Daniel Larson from the East Bay Fellowship- which has raised more than $13,000 for the family- told RadarOnline.com exclusively.
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Jaycee is no stranger to chronicling her life. On Thursday, the world was riveted by excerpts released in court documents from the diary she kept during the eighteen years she was held captive by Phillip and Nancy Garrido.
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The Danville church – which has a 2500 strong congregation - has paid Dugard’s rent for the past four months and is actively trying to raise more money for the family who are living at a safe, private and rural location not that far from where she was held captive in Antioch. (If you want to donate to the church's trust for the family, click here.)
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The church also helps in the family in smaller ways. “Several months ago some jewelry was left in the church and after it wasn’t claimed at the police [station] the church decided to donate it to Jaycee and her family," Larson added. “When it came to light that they were having financial difficulties, our main pastors Cliff and Mari Hanes asked the congregation to start donating jewelry and other items and it has just snowballed from there."
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Larson thinks the book project will help Jaycee heal. “I think that ultimately writing a book about her experience will be good for Jaycee because she has been put through a terrible ordeal."
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I agree with Mrs. D and Reader....much as I want to know how she dealt with it I don't think she should have to earn her living by selling her story...I can't believe she's in such a predicament now!!!!
Posted Fri, 02/12/2010 - 5:14pm
If her book is publish I will buy the book...I don't know how far I would read in the book b/c it breaks my heart to read just what little is here.......I Hate those 2 people that kidnapped her...
Posted Fri, 02/12/2010 - 2:55pm
I find it pretty horrible she was held captive by this douchebag and from the sounds of it, she's still having to live in some form of captivity. What a statement 'I want to be FREE'.
Posted Fri, 02/12/2010 - 2:10pm
I'm afraid she has to stay in this new form of captivity not by therapeutical but by juridical reasons. Hope she can be free after end of lawsuit. So she is sort of still captive of the Garridos.
Posted Fri, 02/12/2010 - 2:25pm
Thank you Radar for including a link to the Jaycee's church so we can make a donation!!
Posted Fri, 02/12/2010 - 1:56pm
She shouldn't have to write a book or sell anything- I'll gladly donate (and she could sit on her butt for years and eat bon-bons as much as she's been through). I don't think she's the type, but she should be given opportunities now to CHOOSE.
Posted Fri, 02/12/2010 - 1:44pm
EXACTLY Mrs D!!! She deserves the best of the best!! I would much rather donate regularly than force her to have to write a book and make appearances if she doesn't want to. I say we all commit to donate $$.
Posted Fri, 02/12/2010 - 1:53pm
EXACTLY Mrs D!!! She deserves the best of the best!! I would much rather donate regularly than force her to have to write a book and make appearances if she doesn't want to. I say we all commit to donate $$.
Posted Fri, 02/12/2010 - 1:53pm
You are both so right! She should not have to relive what she went through or publicize the horrible details so she can have money to live on. I will gladly give and hope enough money is raised so she doesn't ever have to do that.
Posted Fri, 02/12/2010 - 6:51pm