Her Own Story of Her Disappearance is an interview given by Agatha Christie to the Daily Mail published on 16 Feb 1928. In it, Agatha Christie sought to give her own account of why she disappeared in 1926, as part of an effort to quell media speculation and to put forward her own side of the story. It is the longest and most detailed account from her ever to be given out concerning her disappearance.
It the interview she states that while many people still thought that she had staged the disappearance deliberately, she had "left home that night in a state of high nervous strain with the intention of doing something desperate...." She related that she suffered depression after the death of her mother and other "private troubles". On the after of Decembr 3 she had paid a visit to a relative in Dorking and passed Newlands Corner on the way back. "There came into my mind the thought of of driving into it," but she changed her mind because Rosalind was in the car with her. That night she felt miserable and so left home and drove around aimlessly. She considered throwing herself into a river but felt she was too good a swimmer to drown. She then went London and Sunningdale and then to Newlands Corner again. She turned the car towards the quarry butit struck something before it could plunge in and she hit her head on the steering wheel. "Up to this moment I was Mrs Christie." Thereafter she went in a dazed state from some station to Waterloo and from there to King's Cross and then Harrogate.
The choice of Harrogate is explained by the thought that she had once considered going there to get treated for neuritis. While there, she actually read about "Agatha Christie" and her disappearance and thought that this woman had acted stupidly. After being found, she talked about how psychiatric treatment helped her to regain her memory.