I died the day Katherine came into town.

[If not that day, it was close enough. She was the reason she'd died with Damon's blood in her system, the reason she was a vampire.

At least in that way, she was better off.

And Klaus also has his answer.

She doesn't want to think about it, tries really hard to leave it in the past. She didn't even remember what was going on while it was happening.]

Obviously, after I became a vampire, the compulsion wore off and I got to remember all the crappy things he did to me.