Elizabeth Smart credits her parents, Ed and Lois Smart, with helping her stay strong during her 2002 kidnapping. “From as far back as I can remember, my parents have always tried to teach me what’s ...

Famous kidnapping survivor and activist Elizabeth Smart's father has come out as gay — and revealed he plans to divorce his longtime wife. In a heartfelt Facebook message, Ed Smart dropped the news, ...

Ed Smart shared the news in a since-deleted letter posted to Facebook Ed Smart, the father of kidnapping survivor and activist Elizabeth Smart, reportedly came out as gay and announced he is divorcing ...

Ed Smart, father of kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart, came out as gay in a letter to family and friends that quickly went public Thursday. In that letter, which he initially intended for only ...

The father of Utah kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart will speak publicly for the first time since coming out as gay at an LGBTQ youth conference. KUTV reported Monday that Ed Smart has been ...

Elizabeth Smart's father says there's something he has to talk about — 17 years after his daughter's kidnapping and miraculous rescue. Ed Smart is revealing how he struggled to come out as gay in an ...

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Most stories that start off like Elizabeth Smart's do not have happy endings. At best, the answers that a family seeks and may even finally get only serve as a form of a closure, an OK to stop looking ...

Father of Elizabeth Smart speaks out about daughter's resilience. Dec. 13, 2010 — -- Ed Smart, the father of Elizabeth Smart, called his daughter's courageous ...

Seventeen years after his daughter Elizabeth's high-profile kidnapping and rescue, Ed Smart spoke Monday of his struggle to come out as a gay man. “There is no cure. This is absolutely not a choice," ...

Ed and Lois divorced in 2019 after 34 years of marriage Lois Smart via Getty ; AP Photo/Djamila Grossman Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped on June 5, 2002, by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee She ...

Ed Smart, father of kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart, has revealed that he is gay, sharing in a letter on Facebook that he is divorcing his wife and leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...