Angela Harris said no matter the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Carlee Russell, she has no regrets in going all out to search for her and would do it all over again.

Harris, who founded nonprofit Aniah’s Heart after her daughter Aniah Blanchard was abducted and murdered nearly four years ago, spoke out Friday about her group’s involvement in the disappearance of Russell.

“Carlee is reunited with her family, no matter how that happened, or what that looks like, or what the circumstances surrounding that are,’’ Harris said in a Facebook Live video. “Our nonprofit is dedicated to helping bring people home.”

Russell seemingly vanished eight days ago after stopping on Interstate 459, reportedly to help a toddler walking alone.

Police and teams of volunteers, including Harris and Aniah’s Heart, spent the next 48 hour searching for the 25-year-old Russell before she showed back up at her family’s home and was taken to UAB Hospital for an overnight evaluation.

Hoover police said earlier this week they don’t believe there is any danger to the community and said their investigation showed that there was no sign of a toddler alone on the interstate. Chief Nick Derzis also said that Russell had searched Amber Alerts and the movie Taken in the hours before her disappearance.

Russell, when interviewed by police the night she returned home, told investigators she was abducted by a white man with orange hair, and held in an 18-wheeler. A woman with the abductor, she said, played with her hair.

Russell said she was eventually able to escape and returned home.

As of Friday, Russell has not agreed to a second interview with police investigators. The probe is still ongoing.

Russell’s parents declined a request from AL.com to comment following the press conference earlier this week.

Many viewed Russell’s disappearance as a hoax, though police have stopped just short of calling it.

Many have expressed outrage that Harris was subjected to emotional turmoil by the memories Russell’s disappearance brought back to the surface for Harris.

“I’ve tried to get my thoughts together and wanted to make sure I represent Aniah’s Heart well,’’ Harris said Friday.

“On behalf of Aniah’s Heart and her family and friends, our nonprofit, I just want to say thank you to everybody who helped and supported while we were searching for Carlee and now after.”

“Aniah’s Heart is dedicated to helping find missing people,’’ she said. “That is what we do.”

“Whether that be boots on the ground or whether that be investigating from where we are and offering support, that is actually what our nonprofit is about as well as teaching safety education and situational awareness and self-defense,’’ Harris said.

“It is not our place with our nonprofit to judge or point fingers about any situation that has to do with information about anybody’s case,’’ she said.

“But we did exactly what we’re supposed to do,’’ she said. “That is what we did Friday morning, that is what we did throughout the entire search for Carlee Russell, and we would do it all over again tomorrow.”

“We want to bring people home to their families,’’ Harris said. “We want to reunite missing loved ones with their families and that is exactly what happened in this case.”

“We do this for Aniah, because of Aniah, and we want to keep it classy,’’ Harris said. “We want to do everything the right way. We’re not about saying anything negative.”

Harris said the response to the call for help in the hours after Russell’s disappearance was much like the respond when Aniah was abducted.

“We were blessed to have so many people come and help search for Aniah,’’ she said. “We need to keep that same energy moving forward.

“Please don’t let what happened and the details surrounding what happened this weekend taint your thoughts about searching for people or missing people in general,’’ she said. “We need you guys. We need the community to come together.”

“It’s been tough,’’ she said, “but we wouldn’t do anything differently.”