grooming in my case looked like an abuser finding out my phone

abilities. He knew I wanted to be famous. He knew I wanted to

get out of the farm life that I was growing up in. So he played

off that. Today, I sit down with Eliza Blue, a child sex

trafficking survivor. Now, she's advocating for the many

children being exploited for profit online. Children are either

being blackmailed, groomed, or extorted, sex-storted to

making this content. And it is probably by far the biggest

threat right now when we're talking about the sexual

exploitation of children. This is American Thought Leaders

and I'm Janja Kellek.

Eliza Blue, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought

Leaders. Thank you so much for having me. Well, let's start at

the beginning. You're a survivor of sex trafficking. Yeah,

to put it really bluntly. And maybe let's just start with

your story, frankly, because frankly, a very important and

powerful one. Yeah, there's a lot there. So to cut out a

little bit of time, because it would take a long time for me to

explain the entire story, I was homeschooled. I thought that

everyone was perfect and good, like the family that I came

from. I met an abuser who was a photographer when I was 15

years old. I like to be very clear what I'm speaking about

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