Nearly two weeks after being reunited with her family, 16-year-old Justina Pelletier said in an interview Saturday that no one should ever experience the horror she went through while spending 16 months in Massachusetts state custody.

Pelletier, originally from Connecticut, was taken from her family over a year ago after two respected Massachusetts hospitals disagreed over her medical diagnosis. Cut off from her parents and left in a wheelchair, Pelletier opens up to Fox News' Mike Huckabee about the abuse she suffered while undergoing state-mandated medical treatment for a psychological illness she did not have.

"This should never happen again to anybody," Pelletier told Huckabee in her first interview since she was reunited with her parents on June 18. "They should never be put through what I've been put through.

"And they were so mean and nasty to mean and they were being mean and terrible to my family also. And no-one should be put through that."  

Pelletier's nightmare began in February 2013 when she was admitted to Boston Children's Hospital with flu-like symptoms. Doctors there determined she was suffering from a psychologically-induced illness called somatoform disorder.

But experts at Tufts Medical Center diagnosed her two years prior with mitochondrial disease, a genetic disorder which causes the body's cells to loose energy. When Pelletier's parents disagreed with Boston Children's diagnosis, Massachusetts Department of Children and Families accused them of "medical abuse" and took Pelletier away, Fox News reported.

Pelletier was admitted to Connecticut's JRI Susan Wayne Center for Excellence in May, where she received state-ordered treatment for the psychological illness. She was allowed to see her family once a week during hour-long supervised visits. 

"It was really hard because we couldn't talk about things that we really wanted to talk to about," Pelletier told Huckabee. "No-one was on my side there. No one believed me there. Everyone told me I was faking."

Pelletier was finally allowed to return to her parents after a court ordered her release. Though doctors say she is paralyzed from the waist down, Pelletier's parents, Lou and Linda, said she was able to walk on her own before she underwent treatment at Boston Children's Hospital, ABC News reported. It will take months for her to get her strength back.

"This was all a mad psychiatric experiment," Lou Pelletier told Huckabee.

Pelletier said she is just happy the ordeal is over despite the long recovery ahead.

"I'm really excited for everything to go back to normal. And it's a long road ahead, but it will definitely get there," she said.