VIENNA (Reuters) - The mother of Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch launched a book on Tuesday about her own 8-year ordeal -- after her daughter, said to be unhappy about the new publicity, made changes in the text.
"We have no differences over the book. This is a book about my story. Her story is something else," Brigitta Sirny-Kampusch told a news conference.
She said her daughter had spent 11 hours at the publisher's house reading the book and had made unspecified amendments.
Kampusch, 19, made a surprise appearance at the news conference but said nothing and hid her face behind large sunglasses and a fan to fend off jostling photographers.
Kampusch languished in a cell beneath a house garage from 1998 until her dramatic escape a year ago which made her an international media sensation, a rarity in Austria.
Her captor, a 44-year-old man, committed suicide by throwing himself under a train hours after she dashed to freedom.
Sirny-Kampusch, divorced from Kampusch's father, said the book, "Desperate Years -- My Life Without Natascha", was a cathartic effort to put the abduction years behind her.
She said earlier that she also desperately needed money after a long period without work.
"Natascha angry about book," was the headline in Tuesday's mass-circulation daily Oesterreich, which noted she had said she should be the one to write any book about her kidnapping.
Kampusch has avoided the spotlight for much of the time since her escape, moving into her own apartment, trying to catch up on lost schooling and readjust to normal life.
A photo of Kampusch and her lawyer's son in a disco was splashed on page 1 of Germany's Bild tabloid last month.
Source : http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0787169820070807?pageNumber=2
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