Columbine shooting survivor who became face of massacre recalls how she nearly bled to death

“I turned around because I felt this hand on my back. I turned around and there was nobody there, but I still felt the hand on the back. And at that moment is when I knew I was going to be shot.

She remembers loosing so much blood she could feel it rising over her fingers - and then the shooters left. “When they left, Craig helped me escape and I remember hiding behind a police car. My throat was swelling and I was losing a lot of blood. I remember a stranger getting me a drink of water from a hose.

"We didn't know what to expect - we thought the worst after the man on the phone said Kacey could't talk," Greg said. "She was terrified. She was drugged up and every so often she'd doze off and then she'd wake up asking 'Daddy, are you there?'Kacey also gives talks about her journey Kacey faced a long road to recovery and as well as immense physical pain, she was crippled with anxiety and emotional pain.

And I was done with that. So I made a decision not to live in fear. I had been given a second chance at living this beautiful life, a chance that several of my classmates didn't get to have.Kacey received cards and flowers from all over the world - and boyband N-SYNC even came to visit her“I still live with pain every day - it’s just something I’ve got used to living with. But I have gained a lot of positives out of this awful situation.

The Hillsborough families this week have been telling about their pain and suffering 30 years on. And a certain newspaper rubbing salt into their wounds. If you know what I mean....

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