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- Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout was working on a story in Mogadishu when she and photographer Nigel Brennan were kidnapped in August 2008
- They were not released until November 2009 after their families paid a $600,000 ransom
- Lindhout wrote a book about her experience called The House In The Sky
- It will now be turned into a film
- Girl With A Dragon Tattoo star Rooney Mara will portray Lindhout
The comments come as the 33-year-old's best-selling memoir, The House In The Sky, was picked up by a major Hollywood studio to be adapted as a film starring Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara.
Lindhout and an Australian photographer, Nigel Brennan, were kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists outside Mogadishu in August 2008.
They were working on a story at the time and help hostage for 460 days.
Survivor: Journalist Amanda Lindhout has spoken about coming to terms with the men who held her hostage and abused her for over a year in Somalia
Amanda Lindhour (left) wrote on Facebook on June 26: 'Big news to announce! #ahouseinthesky has been optioned to film, with incredible, beautiful, actress Rooney Mara to star. Here we are last fall, when I spent a weekend in Maine with Rooney and my co-author Sara Corbett.'
Ordeal: Lindhout wrote about being kidnapped along with photographer and ex-boyfriend Nigel Brennan (top) in her best-selling memoir, A House In The Sky(bottom)
Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan smile in November 2009 after being freed following 15 months in captivity
Lindhout said she concept of the 'house in the sky' is the place in her mind she turned to in order to survive the torment.
'It was my memory and my imagination,' she told Bangor Daily News.
'They helped me survive.'
Not only has Lindhout survived, she says she has come to terms with the men who subjected her to endless sexual abuse.
'The reality of my experience was very violent,' she said.
'It was difficult to get through a day, and I didn’t know when, or if, it would end.
'It was almost constant abuse.'
During the very darkest time, Lindhout had what she calls a 'moment of awakening'.
'Abdujllah was abusing me, he was hurting me, and I was protecting myself and had an almost out-of-body experience,' she said.
Amanda Lindhour (right) seen here with Sara Corbett, the writer who co-authored The House In The Sky
'I found myself looking down on myself on the floor.'
Lindhout said she then realized her attacker knew only of violence.
'It’s pretty clear my captors were products of war and certainly had been shaped by that,' she says now.
'Having that understanding helped me.
'They’re human beings with painful stories of their own. It doesn’t make them innocent by any means, but they’re products of a culture of violence.'
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