He pushed me to the ground.Now, in an interview with Dr. Phil that aired on Tuesday, Knight revealed she is happily married and loving her new life.‘I came so far and everything is so peaceful now.’The victim recounted harrowing details about emotional punishment, in which Castro repeatedly told her: ‘You’re a person with no meaning.’He allowed her to be kept in the same room as Knight. ‘This is the biggest news I got for you Dr Phil. We’re free. Not a soul. The two girls developed a bond and held hands while they were abused.‘And then I looked up, and I was like, ‘that’s you that I’ve been talking to, yeah, yeah that’s you.’Ariel Castro (pictured) was sentenced to life in prison for abducting, raping and holding captive three women as well murder for forcing one of the women to abort her pregnancyShe and two other captives – Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry – were rescued in May 2013.‘We stepped into a bedroom and he said: ”The puppies are underneath the dresser,” she said.Knight became pregnant five times during her years in captivity. "The gentle guy who'd seemed so nice to me had turned into a madman. That’s because you don’t mean nothin’ to nobody.”’He committed suicide a month into his prison sentence, on September 3, 2013.On May 6, 2013, the three girls finally escaped.Knight now works as a motivational speaker, travelling the world to speak about human trafficking and missing and exploited children.She added: ‘When I first told him, it took a while before he could actually comprehend what was going on and how I felt.She added: ‘Buying my first home and feeling safe was the most important part. Michelle Knight has introduced her husband Miguel (pictured together) to the world on Dr. Phil The pair then bumped into each other by chance before love blossomed and they tied the knot in 2016 and enjoyed a honeymoon in Hawaii. I still move forward," she said. I painted the whole house myself, I also painted pictures that I put on the wall.’Knight talks more about her life now in her second memoir – ‘Life After Darkness: My Journey To Happiness’ – which will be released in early May, coinciding with the fifth anniversary of her escape.There, she ran into Castro, who was one of her friends’ father.Knight, who refers to Castro as ‘the dude’ in her writing, recalled one night: ‘Amanda’s mother was on the news pleading for people to help find her daughter.She said: ‘What happened over the next three hours is still hard for me to think about. In addition to Castro’s sexual abuse, Knight had been abused as a child by a relative.“When you’re confined and have nothing to do except wait to be abused, imagining the details of a wedding that will never happen is a survival strategy: Focus on the impossible,” she writes.Knight and Rodriguez enjoy watching movies together and share a love of animals, including their pit bull, Peanuts, who Knight rescued after Peanuts was thrown in her yard and abandoned.Knight met Miguel Rodriguez, a 39-year-old courier, through mutual friends on Facebook.