ABC Shows Video of Giffords' Therapy

The latest preview for Gabrielle Giffords’ interview with Diane Sawyer, which airs on ABC tonight at 10pm, includes riveting scenes from Giffords’ rehabilitative therapy. In one, Giffords sings; in another, she breaks down in tears; in a third, she takes her first halting steps. They’re especially compelling when contrasted with images from the interview of a smiling Giffords who, at one point, reaches over to fix Sawyer’s hair.

Husband Mark Kelly provided the exclusive home videos to ABC; he documented the process so that Giffords could someday see what happened to her. He says he and Giffords will make a final decision as to a reelection run by the filing deadline, May 2012. Also within the next year, they will decide whether to continue trying to have a baby together, a process they had begun before the shooting. In one particularly touching scene from the interview, Giffords chooses one word to describe her husband: “brave.” Replies Kelly, “That's what I think of when I think of you, too.” (More Gabrielle Giffords stories.)