Cleveland kidnapping victim Michelle said that she was "tied up like a fish", with an orange extension cord and was hung on a bedroom wall "like an ornament" by Ariel Castro. Ms Knight said that this was the only way she could describe how her experience of being tied for days at a time, with no food or water and even without bathroom breaks, was like.

Ms Knight spoke of her harrowing experience with Dr Phil McGraw in his show to be aired on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Ms Knight was one of the three women - Amanda Berry and Gina de Jesus - who were held captive by Mr Castro for 11 years. During the height of the controversy, after their successful escape on May 6, 2013, with the media telling of Ms Berry's being the hero, Ms Knight was dubbed as the "Forgotten One."

She was the very first woman who was abducted by Mr Castro. She disappeared in August of 2002. She was 21 at the time. However, efforts to find her were stopped after futile attempts as authorities ruled out that she might just have run away from home. Sadly, it was her mother who insinuated this idea to the police.

But as Ms Knight spoke now of her experience with courage, she is forgotten no longer.

She first found the voice to speak during Mr Castro's sentencing. While Ms Berry and Ms de Jesus had their lawyers read their statements in court, Ms Knight did otherwise.

She looked Mr Castro in the eyes.

"You took 11 years of my life away, but I've got my life back! I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just beginning . . . From this moment on, I will not let you define me or affect who I am. I will live on . . . The death penalty would be so much easier. You don't deserve that. You deserve to spend life in prison."

Ms Knight's interview with Dr Phil was taped ahead of its two-part airing.

In an interview with The Plain Dealer, Dr Phil said that her interview with Ms Knight is one of the most profound on-camera experience he has had since the show's first television airing back in 2002.

"Out of respect for Ms. Berry and Ms. De Jesus, she chose to speak about their shared experiences only from her own point of view. When you listen to her describe the horrible living conditions and how she was treated, you wonder how anyone lasted a day let alone more than a decade. In the 12 years of doing the 'Dr. Phil' show, no one has changed me like Michelle Knight and her story of survival," Dr Phil told The Plane Dealer.

Dr Phil was impressed about how Ms Knight found her own voice.

"I found Michelle to be very bright, well-spoken and eager, after all of these horrific years, to have her own voice. People have perceived her, probably based on the information in the original missing person report, as being intellectually disabled. I found her to be anything but that. My team and I spent quite a lot of time with Michelle and she showed a tremendous strength in reconstructing her 11 years of captivity. She was understandably very emotional at times."

In an official statement from the show, it said that the interview will detail Ms Knight's experience of the horrible conditions in the house and reveals the various methods of physical, mental, and sexual abuse that Castro inflicted on her, some of which include being 'tied up like a fish' and spending weeks chained up and tortured in Castro's basement."

As for Ms Knight's revelations, the statement said that all details from Ms Knight herself were never-before-heard.

"As the first victim to break her silence, she makes never-before-heard revelations about what went on in Castro's Cleveland house of horrors. Knight recalls the day-to-day details of her decade in captivity in a manner than can be described as passionate, moving and poignant. She is the self-proclaimed, most hated victim in the house, and according to Knight, suffered the most abuse at the hands of Castro."