Kamiyah Mobley's story, this is a young woman who
at eight hours old, was snatched out of a hospital.
Kidnapped.
Kidnapped.
Kidnapped by a woman, raised her as her own.
Nobody knew, nobody knew for 18 years.
She just walked into a hospital and took a baby.
And nobody knew for, what, 16...
For 16 years, 16 years.
16 years!
16 years, no one knew about this.
It's riveting.
But she was brought to justice,
and this story is Kamiyah Mobley's story, that's her story.
It's through the eyes of this woman who is walking this
balancing act of a family that raised her
and her biological family who she just met.
And so Niecy Nash plays the abductor, Gloria Williams.
Her performance in this movie is outstanding.
You've never seen her ever like this, incredible.
Yes, it really was and it's one of those...
Serving 18 years in jail.
She's serving 18 years because that's how long
it was that she had snatched this young woman.
Unbelievable.
So they wanted
to make sure that she did that.
You know, we did the story on Good Morning America,
so I'm doing it on Good Morning America,
and I'm just riveted by this young woman, her poise
and how she had this kind of composer.
And I was so happy that she allowed us to tell her story.
Yeah, I was going to say, how did this all come together,
and how do the families feel about it being turned
into a scripted drama?
Because we also do a complimentary documentary where
we talk to some of the real-life family members.
Right.
And it was her relationship
with her biological mother is strained a little bit.
They're working on it because this young woman,
she had this woman who raised her
and did a great job raising her,
though did a despicable thing, taking her.
You can't sugar coat
Right.
that at all, but for 18 years, she was her mother.
And she still refers to her as her mother, and so
for her biological mom, that hurts.
That hurts her.
Right.
So it's real, it's very delicate.
The biological father is very much in her life.
There's so many layers to that story.
So many different layers, the siblings that she now has.
You're going to hear from them,
and it's just really a lesson for us all.
You know, resilience and nature verses nurture
and all those aspects.
That's what's fascinating about it, exactly.
We got a clip, can we just roll the clip?
Oh, please. Please.
Okay.
You're not my daughter.
I took you a long time ago.
No, I said I wasn't going to say took, I, I stole you.
What the hell?
Mom, you know this ain't funny.
That's you.
Oh, what?
What is this?
(audience applauding)
Can you see, I'm telling you.
My eyes are filling with water just watching
a few seconds of it.
Niecy, her performance
and the young woman, Rayven Ferrell,
who plays Kamiyah, and you have to realize this,
Kamiyah was trying to get a job.
She's 16 years old, she wants to get a job.
What do you need?
You need a Social Security number.
That's right.
So her mother who was raising her, Gloria Williams,
kept stalling her, kept stalling her.
Couldn't stall her any longer, told her.
And so Kamiyah kept that secret for almost two years.
Can you imagine?
So she knew for two years that was not her mother,
so that's another layer to all of this.
I mean it really is so incredible.
That's what I'm saying, a story like this,
it really is truth is stranger than fiction.
And that's why I wanted
to do the complimentary documentary because you watch
the movie, and how many times, when you see a movie
that's based on a true story,
That's right.
You immediately go online,
and you want to read more about it.
And you want it, right, because you get
so engrossed with it.
Exactly.
And so you're going to see where she is today.
You're going to see Kamiyah.
How old is she now?
She's 21 now, she has a job.
She is moving to Florida to be closer
to her biological family, her siblings, her brother.
Working on that relationship with her mother.
That also means she's going to be closer to Gloria,
and in the documentary, you're also going
to see that recently, after three years, she's been
in jail for three years, she just saw her mother again.
I keep saying her mother because that's how...
That's how she refers to her.
she refers to Gloria Williams.
And so you're going to see her visiting her in jail
for the first time.
Wow!
And it is just, but you know what,
I felt better after sitting down
with her.
Yeah.
'Cause I'm a worrywart woman going, "Are you okay?"
Right, you feel, you care about her.
Right, are you okay?
And I sit across from her, and I'm like, "Wow!
"You're 21 years old, you have
it together as much as you do."
And she wants to say that's in part because of how
she was raised.
That's right, isn't that ironic.
I know but it's,
and people take sides on this.
There's no side.
And then somebody who's in the middle is Kamiyah.
That's why it's her story.
That's why it's her story to tell.
(audience cheering)
