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Cleveland kidnapping victim Michelle Knight was strung up with orange extension chords by her neck and feet 'like a fish' for days without food or water during her 11 years in captivity, it emerged today.
She made the revelations to Dr. Phil McGraw in an exclusive interview which will offer the first glimpse into life inside the 'House of Horrors' at the hands of Ariel Castro.
Speaking of the unimaginable abuse she suffered, Michelle describes becoming Castro's prisoner: '[He used] one of those orange extension cords. I was tied up like a fish, an ornament on the wall. That's the only way I can describe it.
'I was hanging like this by my feet and i was tied by my neck and my arms with the extension cord going like that.'
In the interview, which will be aired on Tuesday and Wednesday night, she tells Dr. Phil that she would be left strung up like that for days, with no food or water. No way to go to the toilet.
Scars: Michelle Knight tells Dr. Phil she still has nerve damage on her hands and feet because of the abuse she suffered
She still has nerve damage on her hands and feet because of it.
Speaking ahead of the broadcast, Dr. Phil said: 'When you listen to her describe the horrible
living conditions and how she was treated, you wonder how anyone lasted a day let alone more than a decade.'
The only thing that gave her hope throughout her time in captivity was her two-year-old son.
'I'm fighting to stay alive for him,' she said in the excerpt, aired on the Today Show this morning.
Michelle will be the first of Castro's three victims to publicly speak out at length about the horrors the women had to endure for more than a decade in the ramshackle Cleveland home before being rescued.
Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus escaped on May 6 when Berry pushed out a door and yelled for help.
Their kidnapper, Ariel Castro, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. He hanged himself on September 3, just weeks into his sentence.
During the exclusive interview with Dr. Phil viewers will hear in great details about the antics and torture that occurred Castro's Cleveland house of horrors.
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She is a remarkable woman! If it were in my power to ensure that she wants for nothing for the rest of her life, I would do it in a heartbeat.
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