Payton Leutner, 17, was stabbed more than five years ago by a best friend and classmate looking to prove that "Slender Man" is real. She wants to reclaim her story.

Payton Leutner suffered 19 stab wounds after she was attacked by Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier with a knife and left for dead in the Waukesha, Wisconsin, woods in May 2014.

More than five years after Payton Leutner was stabbed 19 times by two classmates at age 12, the Wisconsin teen is breaking her silence about the life-changing attack, saying she sleeps with a pair ...

Payton Leutner, 17, was repeatedly knifed on May 31, more than five years ago, by Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier. The three girls were all 12 years old.

Payton Leutner, stabbed 19 times by her friend in the Slender Man case, says she has "come to accept all of the scars that I have. It's a part of me." ...

Payton Leutner (left) ABC News. When she learned why Geyser had stabbed her, she said, she wasn’t surprised by the unhinged motive. “After I heard why she did it, I was like, ‘Well, this ...

Payton Leutner celebrated her 15th birthday the same day a judge set a trial date Nearly three years after Payton Leutner was stabbed 19 times by two classmates when she was 12 years old, the ...

Payton Leutner tells ABC News that despite her lingering trauma, she has "come to accept all of the scars that I have" Latest U.S.

Payton Leutner told ABC News' David Muir for 20/20 that Geyser had told her all about Slender Man and Leutner "thought it was odd. It kind of frightened me a little bit. But I went along with it.

Payton Leutner, a 17-year-old Wisconsin girl, made the news five years ago when she was stabbed to near-death by her former best friends, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier., a 17-year-old Wisconsin girl ...

Victim Payton Leutner speaks out for first time about 'Slender Man’ attack. Associated Press. A Waukesha girl who was lured into the woods by two friends and stabbed 19 times in an effort to ...