Tennessee teen taken by teacher says he threatened her to make her go on the run with him

(ABC News) – It’s been a year and a half now since high school teacher Tad Cummins ran off with his then 15-year-old student Elizabeth Thomas.

Across the country and in the small town of Culleoka, Tennessee, where the two lived, many have made up their minds about the exact nature of the relationship between Cummins and Thomas.

But Thomas, now 17, is sharing what she says is the real truth about what happened to her.

“[People] think they know what happened,” Thomas told “20/20” in an exclusive interview. “They think that I’m a whore. They think that I like old men and that’s not the case.”

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