A WOMAN who was forced to kill her abusive stepfather finally has the chance to tell her story in a new movie.

Mary Elizabeth Bailey was only 11 years old in February 1987, when her mother Priscilla Wyers, gave her a .22-cal. rifle.

Priscilla instructed Mary to shoot and kill her stepdad Wayne Wyers, who was knocked out drunk on a chair inside their home in West Virginia.

“I remember every detail,” Mary said. “I remember the shock because it took three times for the weapon to fire. I remember when the fire came out of the end of it.”

Now, more than 35 years later, Mary is sharing her traumatic experience in the Lifetime movie Would You Kill For Me? The Mary Bailey Story, which premieres on October 28 at 8 pm EST.

The film is based on true events and is told from the perspective of three generations of women. It follows the volatile relationship between Ella (Melissa Joan Hart), her daughter Veronica (Olivia Scriven), and her granddaughter Mary (Presley Allard).

In her 2020 memoir, My Mother’s Soldier, Mary explained that she referred to her biological mother as “Veronica” in the book because she never looked at her as “Mom.”

Mary was the result of an affair between Veronica and a married man, and she was raised by her maternal grandmother.

She told PEOPLE that writing about her life experiences in the book enabled her to go through a process of healing and she hopes the film helps people understand how she was able to forgive her mother.

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“I think the movie will help them to see that she’s not the worst person in the world,” said Mary, who makes an appearance in the movie.

“She was going through a lot of things,” she added. One of the things Mary was referring to was Veronica’s abusive relationship with a man named Willard (Connor McMahon).

The lives of all three women and Mary’s half-brother Sammy take a turn for the worse after the two married. Willard, a raging alcoholic, becomes increasingly abusive toward his wife as well as his two stepchildren, especially Mary.

“My stepdaddy was a bad man,” a young Mary said in the movie’s trailer. “Being scared of my stepdaddy was something me and her had in common.”

Then, Willard subjects his wife to a fresh level of betrayal and humiliation when he impregnates her best friend Susan (Celina “Spookyboo” Myers).

On the night that Veronica put the murder weapon in her then-11-year-old daughter’s hands and ordered her to kill her stepfather, Mary said her mom told her: “If you do this…it will all be over. You’re not gonna go to jail, you’re too young.”

Mary said she pleaded with Veronica but her mother insisted that she pull the trigger.

“I need you to save me,” said Veronica in the trailer. 

Mary previously explained that after police arrived, her mother first told the investigators she killed her husband. But then she flipped on her daughter and told authorities it was all Mary’s idea.

Both mother and daughter were charged with murder. But Mary’s charges were dropped after she testified against her mother and her child was ultimately placed in foster care.

Priscilla was found guilty of first-degree murder by a jury in 1988. She was sentenced to life in prison but was eligible for parole in 1998.

She was released from prison shortly afterward and lived together with Mary upon her return home.