“I had done projects before where it didn’t really matter what I said,” Kara told E! News this week. “My opinion didn’t matter in the way my story was told.”
But in this case, she explained, when she had an issue with the first script she read, the team at Lifetime was open to her input. “I kind of geared myself up for this big fight, of ‘No, that’s not the way it was!'” she recalled. But they just said, “‘OK, we’ll change it.’ That was the one pivotal moment for me when I was like, ‘Oh, I get a decision here.'”
Watching Kara’s movie get made was “a very inspiring process” for Elizabeth as well.
“Even if we can just see more survivors become empowered, not feeling guilt or shame associated to what happened to them,” she said, explaining what still compels her bring stories likes these to the screen. “Feeling like, ‘I am so strong, I lived through what many would not be able to and I survived this. I have a voice, and I can speak out and share my story.'”
And telling her story as she sees fit has always been paramount for Kara. She also has 431,500 TikTok followers who come for her missives on true crime, trauma and coping but stay for the decidedly non-dour vibe and humorous—yes, humorous—takes.
“Shout out to that reward money. ((You can laugh. I promise.)),” she wrote alongside an Oct. 25 TikTok in which she concludes “a win is a win,” with the caption, “You got kidnapped by a serial killer but you got a car, free college and a down payment on a house out of it.”