Ingrid Betancourt plans to write play about her 6 years captivity

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Ingrid Betancourt. Photo: EFE

Ingrid Betancourt, freed from six years of captivity in a Colombian jungle, plans to write a play about her experience that she said in an interview published Sunday will plumb the soul of the human condition.

"People must understand", she was quoted as saying in the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche. But she said she needs to show, not tell, her story, "what we are in the depths of our being". "We can be angels but we can also be demons for the other", she said.

The paper said that Betancourt, 46, a citizen of both France and Colombia, would meet with a publishing house Monday or Tuesday.

Betancourt, a Colombian senator, was freed along with 14 other hostages, three Americans and 11 Colombians, in a daring army operation Wednesday. She arrived in France, where her two children live, on Friday.