Charles Ramsey, Anderson Cooper Interview [PHOTO & VIDEO]: Amanda Berry's Hero Says Give Any Reward Money to Kidnapping Victims

By Jon Niles, Mstarz reporter | May 08, 2013 09:41 AM EDT

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Charles Ramsey was interviewed last night on "Anderson Cooper 360," which involved another explanation of the previous day's events as well as some insight into this "hero." Ramsey told Cooper that he does not consider himself a hero, unlike most of America after learning about the harrowing tale of his rescue of Amanda Berry and her daughter. He simply explains that he had to do what was right. Ramsey also said he did not want any reward money for the rescue, and that it should go to the victims.

When Cooper asked Ramsey if he felt like a hero, which is what most people are calling him, he gave the television personality a no-nonsense answer. Ramsey said, "Bro, I'm a Christian, an American, and just like you. We bleed same blood, put our pants on the same way. It's just that you got to put that -- being a coward, and I don't want to get in nobody's business. You got to put that away for a minute."

He then recounted the events of the rescue:

"Came back home, I'm in my house, but I'm in the living room and I'm right by the front door, because I'm looking out the front door, and man, this girl screamed like a car had hit a kid, which made me, you know, stop eating, what the hell was that. You know, so when I got up, I saw this -- my neighbor across the street, he run across the street and I'm, like -- I'm thinking, where you going, because ain't nobody next door because I just saw Ariel leave. 
"And I know ain't nobody over there. Heard that girl scream and saw him run across the street, and I went outside and wondered what he was doing, and -- Amanda said, I'm stuck in here, help get me out. So he -- guy don't know English that well or panicked, he just looked at me and it's a girl. And that's all he did. So here I come with my, you know, half eaten Big Mac and I looked and I said well, what's up. 
"And she's like I've been trapped in here, he won't let me out, me and my baby. I said well, we ain't going to talk no more, come on. I'm trying to get the door open, I can't, because he torture chambered it some kind of way and locked it up, right? So I did what I had to do and kicked the bottom of the door, and she crawled out of it. She grabs her baby, which threw me off, all right, so fine. I got some girl and her kid."

When Cooper asked Ramsey about hearing anything from the FBI about a reward for the kidnapped women's whereabouts and such, he simply said, "I tell you what you do, give it to them... you know I got a job anyway."

Charles Ramsey, who is maybe the best interviewee, also told Cooper that he has trouble sleeping considering he had been living right next door for a year while all of these horrible things were going on. He also explained how he felt when he found out the child with Berry was actually her daughter:

"She's like I want my daddy. And I said, who's her daddy? She said Ariel.... I said well, how's that possible? Because you wouldn't -- if you got kidnapped, he was having sex with [Berry]? Oh, Jesus. That little girl is his? Now we want to hurt [Castro]." 

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