this is "nightline." tonight, the american isis bride, begging for a second chance. >> i hope america doesn't think i'm a threat to them, and i hope they can accept me. >> fleeing alabama, turning to terrorists and personally calls for attacks on america. now her change of heart. >> i will try to help people not make the same mistake i did. >> what she says changes everything. plus, the football coach defying the odds. born without limbs, how he became the backbone of this high school team. >> i'm proud of every single one of you! but damn it, we're not done yet.

and remembering fashion pioneer, carl lagerfeld. but first, the "nightline" five.

good evening. thank you for joining us. we begin with the young woman

who left the u.s. in the name of isis. married into terrorism and preached extremist beliefs. now, in our exclusive interview, she's pleading to come home. here's james longman. >> do you feel regret for being part of an organization like isis? >> definitely, it's not islamic at all. anyone that says so, i will fight against it. >> reporter: she is begging for a second chance. >> i am just a normal human being who's been manipulated once and hopefully never again. >> reporter: four years ago, when she was 19 years old, she left her alabama home and hopped on a plane with a plan to join isis. she said she had been brainwashed to believe she was answering a higher calling. >> reporter: do you remember the day waking up ang sayid saying is the day? >> i thought today is the day i need to go.

>> reporter: the group known for kidnapping and journal journali journalist rose to power a decade ago. >> we'd see dead bodies in public, limbs skat othercattere floor. >> reporter: now she says she wants to come home. >> when i go back, i will larn more and help people not to make the same mistake i have. >> reporter: she says the birth of her now 18-month old son changed her. >> i had a new motherhood instinct that i didn't have before. >> reporter: a so-called isis bride, married twice to isis fig fighters, her son a product of the second marriage. >> i hope america doesn't see me as a threat and can accept me.

>> reporter: her life overseas drastically different than the one she left in america. she was one of five children in an upper middle class family in alabama which she says was strict. >> i wanted a more americanized life. i wanted to have friends, go to places. i didn't get any of that. the only way out for me was just to become practicing. >> reporter: to become more religious. >> more religious. >> reporter: her father spoke to abc news in shadow. at first, he said he was proud his daughter seemed to become more devout about religion, not realizing she was secretly taking cues from isis recruiters on her phone. >> i never imagined that would happen to us, to me, to my family, but it happened to my family. it could happen to any other family. >> reporter: she insists she was brainwashed into becoming a radical muslim after joining a secret twitter network of roughly 3,000 like-minded

members. >> i had an account on twitter. and we normal muslims speaking together. we would just, even rap online together. and i heard and thought it was obligatory for me to go. >> reporter: she started encouraging attacks on americans. i read one of her tweets to her. >> go on drive-bys and spill all their blood or rent a big truck and drive all over them. veteran's, memorial day, kill them. >> the more i gained knowledge, the more i knew that it wasn't correct. so we had just young people, not knowing much about their religion. we interpreted everything very wrong. >> reporter: in november of 2014, she says she told her family she was going on a school trip to atlanta, georgia. once there, she took a flight to turkey but won't say how she made it into syria. >> reporter: so you're in the

safe house and they keep you in raqqah. >> with locks on all the doors and windows. and guards in front of the locked doors and a guard in front of the guard. remember a . >> reporter: and how many would be in the room? >> at a time about 200 people. everyone gave their preferences on who they'd like to marry. were you given a list and you could choose. >> reporter: were you given a list of men and you could choose a man from a list. does that sound crazy to you now? >> sounds very crazy. >> reporter: she says her first husband was an australian of bangladeshi origin. they were married three months before he was killed in battle. seen here in photos from his now-deleted social media. her second husband is now dead. >> for most of us, it was our first relationship. remember she married a third time but doesn't know where her husband is now. six weeks ago, she fled a village not far from where

u.s.-backed forces are closing in on isis in syria. look at it, this is what liberation looks like in syria. she says she left fearing for her and her son's safety. >> there was nothing in the market, nothing in the shops. we were eating what was cow food. and we just plucked grass from around our houses and fried it. seeing him eat grass, that was my last day. >> reporter: after spending two nights in the desert, she was captured by kurdish forces and placed in a refugee camp in northern syria. she's believed to be the only american inside the camp. can you see why people in the united states would be skeptical of your story that you now say you regret having joined the islamic state, but it's only really because i want to come home. >> yeah, i'm sure everyone thinks that, but i hope they excuse me because how young and

so stupid i was. i have none of the ideology. >> reporter: countries around the world are grappling with the issue of repatriating isis brides. president trump has said he wants american isis militants brought back to the u.s. to face justice, while asking european allies to take back their isis fighters and put them on trial. according to a think tank, at least seven people have returned to the u.s. and faced charges. do you think you deserve punishment for what you did? >> maybe there will be lessons, a process that will ensure we'll never do this again. jail time, i don't know if that has an affeeffect on people as . i need help mentally as well. i don't have the ideology any more. >> reporter: she says she may face legal consequences.

>> she is absolutely disgusted by the person she became while under the spell of these, you know, brainwashing monsters. >> reporter: the u.s. state department today said it's looking into these cases to et about better understand the details. now you want america to come and get you. >> i hope so, yeah. i'm almost cried myself to sleep every day because i know that when i do get back i probably will be sentenced to jail for i don't know how much time and thinking that my last few moments with him is stuck in a prison before another prison. >> our thanks to james. next, the man who has spent a lifetime proving everyone wrong. oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults

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he's the high school coach in gilroy, california showing physical limitations can't stop you from achieving your dreams. his compelling story captured espn's documentary "who says i can't." >> at this time, i just want to introduce to you a coach that i hired because i was impressed with his knowledge of the game. your new coach, rob

[ applause ] >> it was really, really awful. i didn't have a choice to have an abortion. so i had to keep robert. >> in the back of my mind, i'm asking why, why my son? less than 100 like him bournerne him in the world. what am i goingo do with this boy? >> i didn't want to see robert. so i didn't see him for about two weeks because i didn't know what to do. >> but he's different. he sees people staring as an opportunity. >> robert was just a really easy child. and he just was really, really happy. >> what's your favorite cheese? >> he's got a gift that doesn't require him to be physical. making him aware of that, i think he just took the ball and

ran. >> i think the most difficult part of having no arms and no legs is simply not being able to play sports. i don't show it, i'm good at not showing it, but yeah, i get mad. i get mad at god. i get mad at the lord, like why? >> his freshman year, he was standing behind the fence at a distance wat distance watching practice, that was the beginning. >> we wanted to get him involved in the program, so we invited him to be the manager. >> they know i couldn't play. but just to include me made me feel a part of it, to feel normal. >> he paid attention to us as coaches but he learned the game on madden and came to practice and tried to create the same game plans and execute them the same way. >> i started giving robert a little more responsibility with

my quarterbacks. >> eyes on the quarterback! >> and the next thing you know, he was there running the drills for us. >> go, go, go, go! >> good >> when i go to a job interview, sometimes i feel like i'm going to -- scare is not the right word -- surprise them. and i don't know how they're going to take the surprise. >> as he rolls out, to be brutally honest, when i first saw that, i was like, how can that guy coach? and when he comes close, he says give me a fist pump. i give him a fist pump on the shoulder and always nerves that i had melted away. >> someone finally gave me the opportunity. so i really appreciated that. this is going to be my 13th year of coaching, and i can't wait to get to know every single one of you. believe in yourself, believe in your teammates and in what you're doing. >> if you're taken aback, that's

natural and human. but after the first two seconds it's just a normal guy. >> i don't care how good you are. i don't care how experienced you are. you guys are going to do everything as a team. >> though he may not look like a coach, he definitely acts like one. >> what we're going to coach right now is called 31 zone. >> his knowledge of the game for someone who hasn't gone through it is impressive. on his phone, he can diagram a play faster than i can do with pen and paper. >> there are definitely doubters out there, like parents who say my son is getting coached by a guy who has no arms or legs. that lights a fire under my but the butt. >> i love people, i love you, i lo love you, i love everyone. if you can't show love on this

football field you better get off it. who am i going to go to? whistle, whistle, whistle, whistle! >> it was a fractured orbittal bone, and my tush tu tured ago wel tured as well. i couldn't sleep, i couldn't chew. >> i felt a bad for him. >> things that you and i take for granted like brushing our teeth or washing our face or taking a shower or going to the restroom, robert needs someone to help >> goodnight.

>> but he's tough. two days later, he was at his practice. >> widen out, widen out! >> and his thing is i've got to be there for the kids. >> i didn't want to let them down. me being challenged has been my motivation. who says i can't! it came from me having a drive to be able to accomplish anything. who says i can't? >> nobody. >> who says i can't? >> nobody! >> yeah! >> he's willing to do all of that? what are we willing to do? ♪ the jv team has had mostly losing seasons. he has done a job i haven't soon other coaches be able to do at that level before.

>> remember this! i'm proud of every single one of you, but damn it, we're not done yet! >> pass it off to the r intercepted. on the way, has the distance, and it's good. takes the division title for the win this afternoon over prospect. >> okay. got good days and bad days, man. we came this far as a team. it's okay. i'm very proud of the whole team. it's going to hurt today. and that's okay if it hurts, because we tried a lot. we love this game of football. i really sincerely want you guys to understand how much appreciate this. >> our opponents, they'd always doubt him. because they see a man in a wheelchair. to us, we see our

who's perfect. >> while pushing him off the field after games, it makes me feel like proud to have him as my coach. >> they gave me the feeling of importance. and i don't think they know that and understand that. maybe they will one day, but i love those kids. and i'm always going to remember them. i think we make a perfect team. can we agree on that? >> yes, coach. >> can we agree on that? >> yes, coach! >> who says i can't? >> nobody! >> who says i can't! >> nobody! >> who says i can't? >> nobody! >> that is inspiring stuff. you can watch the full documentary "who says i can't" on espn.com and on demand. next e tthe legacy of lagerfeld. lagerfeld. tremfya® is for adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.

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died today, known for his signature look of a ponytail and black ensemble, he became a powerhouse in the fashion industry, anna wintor remembered her friend. to be his friend was an exceptional gift. that's "nightline." you can always catch our full episodes on hulu. thanks for the company, america. goodnight.