1:12:04
(Donahue)
Linda Lovelace is, uh, here,
1:12:06
The book is titled,
uh, Ordeal,
1:12:07
And l'll tell you,
this book is a very, uh,
1:12:10
explicit recounting
of what happened to you.
1:12:12
l felt it was important to let
1:12:14
everything out
that happened to me.
1:12:16
l literally became a prisoner
of Mr. Traynor's.
1:12:19
I wasn't permitted to go to
the bathroom by myself,
1:12:21
I was never allowed
out of his eyesight,
1:12:23
If he took a shower,
I had to take a shower
with him,
1:12:26
lf l did have
any kind of communication
with my friends or my family,
1:12:29
he was on the extension
with a .45
1:12:31
or an M-16
semi-automatic machine gun
pointed at me.
1:12:34
And there are those who say
you can see the bruises
on her in the film.
1:12:40
You tell me if the bruises
are visible in the film.
1:12:43
(Tom Snyder)
How did Linda Lovelace and
Gloria Steinem join forces?
1:12:46
How did the two of you
get together?
1:12:48
(Gloria Steinem)
l saw Linda
on the Phil Donahue Show,
1:12:51
And she was
being questioned by Phil,
1:12:54
who l think is usually
a more sensitive questioner
1:12:57
than he was this time,
1:12:59
uh, and by the audience,
with enormous disbelief.
1:13:03
And l still find it
very hard to believe
1:13:04
that you have become
a changed person.
1:13:06
l had always heard
that to be hypnotized,
you had to be willing.
1:13:09
ls there something about
the way you were raised,
in your view,
1:13:12
that made you
vulnerable to this?
1:13:13
And yet
she was still being asked,
1:13:16
uh, what in her background
1:13:18
had led her to become
essentially a hostage.
1:13:21
(Snyder)
what did lead you
to become a hostage,
1:13:23
if we can-- if we can now
ask the question?
1:13:25
Does it go back beyond that
to your childhood,
1:13:27
that you were
a susceptible person?
1:13:28
No.
1:13:29
See now what you're doing,
you're doing what--what
made me so angry.
1:13:33
You know,
because we don't say
to the hostages in lran:
1:13:36
''what in your-- what in
your background led you
1:13:39
to--to be in that embassy?''
Yeah.
1:13:40
(Snyder)
The situations are not
nearly comparable.
1:13:42
(Steinem)
They are. lt's force.
1:13:45
(Damiano)
Linda needed somebody
to tell her what to do,
1:13:51
And as long as
she had somebody
telling her what to do,
1:13:53
she--she was happy.
1:13:55
So when she
made the movie,
1:13:56
she was happy
making the movie.
1:13:58
After the movie,
somebody said,
1:13:59
''Hey, you shouldn't have
made that movie.''