60 Minutes reporter makes a comeback after nearly dying from gang rape.

At the time, she said, she had no doubt she was about to die.

Warning: This item deals with violent sexual assault and may be distressing for some readers.

It was February 2011. 60 Minutes reporter Lara Logan was reporting on the Arab Spring and the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

Logan, a married mother of two, was separated from her bodyguard and camera crew and attacked by a mob of men.

She was gang-raped, leaving her with injuries that led to repeated hospitalised with complications from the internal assaults.

Logan has now made her comeback, with reports she has just signed a new two-year deal with CBS News in the US.

The Daily Mail reports that in 2014 her original CBS News contract was said to be worth $1million per year, but her new salary has not been divulged.

Logan spoke about the brutal attack in a US 60 Minutes interview later that year:

“There was no doubt in my mind that I was in the process of dying. I thought not only am I going to die, but it’s going to be just a torturous death that’s going to go on forever,” she said.

She said at the time she spoke out to break a “code of silence” she said that exists around sexual violence against women. She said she wanted people to know what happened to her.

“I don’t want to make it sound worse than it was, or better than it was, or to minimise it or sensationalise it, just call it what it was,” she said. “This is what happens to women and it’s wrong.”

Logan says she heard later that the mob of men were chanting “Let’s take her pants off”.

She says at that moment the Egyptian fixer looked at her and said “we’ve got to get out of here”.

“It’s like, suddenly, before I even know what’s happening I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind,” she told 60 Minutes.

“And it’s not one person and then it stops, it’s one person and another person and another person and I know that Ray [a special forces soldier]  is right there and he’s grabbing at me and screaming ‘Lara hold on to me, hold on to me’.”

Their camera, which was left running recorded Logan yelling “Stop!” as she was attacked.

“And I feel them tearing at my clothing. My sweater was torn off completely, my shirt was around my neck.

“I felt the moment that my bra, they tore the metal clips of my bra, they tore those open, and I felt that because I felt the air on my chest, on my skin.

“And I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds, and then I felt my underwear go.

“And when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them take pictures with their cell phones. The flashes of their cell phone cameras.”

During the next 10 or so minutes, as the group proceeded to rape Logan with their hands, she said she thought she was dying.

“I didn’t even know they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things because I couldn’t even feel that,” she said.

“All I could feel was their hands, raping me over and over and over again. From the front, from the back, and I didn’t know if I could hold on to him.”

“When I lost Ray I thought that was the end, all the adrenalin left my body because I knew in his face, when he lost me he thought I was going to die,” she said.

Logan said she thought of her children and wondered why she was not fighting harder to save her own life.

“That’s when I said ‘okay, it’s about staying alive now, I have to just surrender to the sexual assault, what more can they do now, they’re inside you, everywhere’.

The mob dragged Logan further and further from her crew until they came across a group of women dressed in the full-length veil, or chador, who held back the mob and covered her.

It’s been a long road to recovery which saw Logan hospitalised on numerous occasions, including at least four times this year due to a digestive disease known as diverticulitis and internal bleeding stemming from the rapes.

On the way her career took a tailspin when she was forced to apologise after a flawed report on 60 Minutes about an attack of the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans.

She took a six-month leave of absence.

Family friend Ed Butowsky told Breitbart News in February that very few people realise just what she had been going through.

“In spite of everything she’s had to face in the last two years, people have no idea the physical suffering she has been enduring due to the brutal sexual assault she encountered in Egypt during the Arab Spring while reporting for 60 Minutes,” he said. “I’ve been in and around this business and people don’t understand how hard reporters work and how much time they put in.”

He said that Logan had been “suffering in every way, shape or form.”

“Maybe it’s time for people to realise these people are human beings.”

We wish Lara Logan the very best in her ongoing recovery.

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