Seven's current affairs show Sunday Night has revealed the reason Natascha Kampusch owns the "House of Horrors" where she was kept prisoner for eight years.
She says it is to prevent it becoming a "theme park" for horror buffs and the doubters of her story.
Ms Kampusch was 10 years old when she was kidnapped from the streets of Vienna, Austria, and kept as a sex slave by Wolfgang Priklopil in a five square-metre room at the base of a set of stairs near his garage.
She escaped at the age of 18 - on August 23, 2006 - while she was out in his garden. Priklopil killed himself by jumping in front of a train when he discovered she had gone.
Ms Kampusch still carries a picture of Priklopil in her purse, it was revealed in an August interview, and likes to spend nights at the house where she spent her adolescence.
When asked by Sunday Night's Rahni Sadler about why she kept the house and "why not burn it to the ground?", Ms Kampusch replied: "I'm looking to sell it maybe. I'm not sure. But I will see."
"Are you feeling OK coming in here?" she asks Sadler. Both women agree that they are fine.
Is it therapy? "Yes you can say, in a special way you can say that."
The unmarried IT specialist kept her as a slave who was forced to clean the house all the time. "I was under his thumb and now I'm not."
It was on March 2, 1998, that Priklopil pounced. That morning Natascha had fought with her mother and walked alone to school.
"He grabbed me and threw me through the open door. The whole thing only took a few seconds. I was well aware that I had been kidnapped and that I could have died," Ms Kampusch reads from her book, Ten Years of Freedom.
It had been something he had planned over years, having dug out the dungeon, which was hidden behind tyres, a cupboard and a door weighing 150 kilograms.
"Sometimes I thought that [I would die] and I made an agreement with myself to cope with this thought," she told Sadler.
Police got a tip-off about a man with a white van and an unhealthy interest in young girls, but Priklopil charmed the police into thinking he was an innocent bystander.
"He had two sides of his personality ... I think one part was the part of the outside, the handsome person, the brave son. The dark side was a brutal person with no conscience," she said,
"I had this kind of hope and kind of strength. It was important to me to have this inner strength and hope and belief that I would survive."
Priklopil would attach Natascha to him all day and make her sleep in his bed. He used her as a domestic slave and held food as punishment. "He would give me one carrot for two days or something and then I would have to go back to the darkness... There was no exit for me."
Even the thought of something happening to him at that time, while she was locked away, was too much for Ms Kampusch. He abused her and she feigned love for him, so she was allowed more privileges like being in the garden.
And it was one day in the garden, while he was distracted by a phone call and the garden gate was slightly open, that she made her escape.
"I think a normal man wouldn't be able to do this. I'm sure he had problems and with his self and his personality and he was a victim too, I think."
For those who doubt her she says: "Wasn't it enough that I was kidnapped... it was horrible?"
It makes her angry "and it hurts".
"It's important not to have the false people in this house. I don't want to have a theme park in here," she tells Sadler during the tour. She still cleans the place from top to bottom, aside from the dungeon.
"I have found freedom in myself and I am very centred now. Lots of people think that such a crime could never happen to them but it isn't true."
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