A year after escaping a kidnapper who held her for eight years, Austrian woman Natascha Kampusch says she feels increasingly sorry for her captor, calling him a "poor soul, lost and misguided".
Snatched as a 10-year-old on her way to school, Ms Kampusch was forced to live in a cell beneath a house garage from 1998 until her dramatic escape in August 2006, which turned her into an international media sensation. Her 44-year-old captor Wolfgang Priklopil committed suicide after she fled.
"I told him one day 'I will dance on your grave' but I meant it in a cynical way, and of course this was not the case," Mr Kampusch (19), told broadcaster ORF in an interview.
"Although, there was a certain sense of satisfaction, a kind of victory - it was always clear that there could be only one of us two, and in the end that turned out to be me, not him."
"I felt a little bit of regret, of pity," she said. "All I can say is that I feel more and more sorry for him."
Mr Kampusch spent most of her teenage years in the tiny, windowless cell and only made her escape when her kidnapper, Priklopil, was distracted by a phone call as she was cleaning his car in the driveway of his home.
"What he did to me has become more distant, [but] it does not fade away, it boils up again and again," she said. "I just try to handle these memories as well as I can, and try to work through them."
The story of her dash to freedom, but also her relationship to Priklopil, with whom she occasionally went shopping and skiing, held media audiences spellbound around the globe.
Kampusch explained why she bade farewell to Priklopil's coffin after his suicide.
"I said farewell, and why shouldn't I have done so? It was important to me, because the last time I saw him alive was when he turned his back to me and I ran away head over heels, but I only said farewell to his coffin, I didn't actually see him."
Kampusch has been busy catching up on her education, learning how to drive, and took up archery to help her focus. She also said she was still trying to find her own definition of the parameters of human interaction such as friendship.
"There are many people who abuse one's trust, and this is very grave," said Ms Kampusch, who flew to Spain for the ORF television special and spent her first day at the seaside.
"I haven't quite found out for myself how to define friendship."