AceShowbiz - Elizabeth Smart weighed in on Gabrielle Petito's (Gabby Petito) death during her appearance on Facebook Watch's "Red Table Talk". In the Wednesday, October 13 episode, the 33-year-old kidnapping survivor recalled her own abduction and how Gabby's tragedy made her feel.

"In Gabby's case in particular--I mean, I was alive, and I came home, and hers, tragically, has not ended that way," Elizabeth shared. "But knowing what it's like being on the other side, and potentially what may have happened and what may have led up to her final moments, and understanding probably a lot of what she was feeling, it's heartbreaking."

When host Jada Pinkett Smith asked if she always maintained hope of being rescued, Elizabeth said, "I always wanted to be rescued. I don't know that I always had hope. There was some pretty dark times, for sure."

Elizabeth shared that for her parents, the worst part of her ordeal for them "was not knowing if I was alive and out there, or if I was dead." She continued, "And actually, when I was being taken up into the mountains that first night that I was kidnapped, I asked him if he was gonna rape and kill me, and if he was going to do that, could he please do it fairly close to my house. Because it was important to me that my parents find my body and know that I hadn't run away."

That made Elizabeth think of the travel blogger, whose remains were found in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest. "And so, when I think of Gabby Petito, when I think of all of these other victims, I feel like they still deserve just every bit as much to be found so that their stories have an ending as well," so she said.

In related news, some of Gabby's friends reacted to the revelation that the 22-year-old's cause of death was strangulation. "It makes me sick to my stomach," friend Alyssa Chen told PEOPLE. "I wonder what was going through her mind, knowing she was probably about to die. She must have been so scared."

"If Brian strangled her, I hope he burns in hell," friend Ben Matula, who was friends with the couple, said of Gabby's missing fiance Brian Laundrie who was named as the person of interest in the case. "That's all I have to say."

Alyssa added, "Whoever did this, whether it's Brian or someone else, needs to pay for what they did. She didn't deserve to die that way."

On Tuesday, Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue revealed during a virtual news conference that the slain travel blogger's cause of death was strangulation. "After a detailed investigation by our forensic pathologist, our anthropologist and local law enforcement, with assistance from the FBI, the Teton County Coroner Office is filing the following verdict in the death of Gabrielle Venora Petito," Blue said. "We hereby find the cause and manner of death to be: the cause of death by strangulation, and manner is homicide."

According to officials, her time of death is estimated to be three to four weeks before her body was found on September 19. During the press conference, it was also shared that the 22-year-old was not pregnant.