Cults can be strange, offbeat or downright terrifying. Glenn Close and Michelle Pfeiffer have both shared stories of cults, along with Joaquin Phoenix, Bethany Joy Lenz and more.
Joaquin, River, their parents and siblings Rain and Liberty were all part of the group in its early days. The youngest child, Summer, was born shortly after they fled. They traveled around the U.S., as well as Central and South America, doing work for the cult.
"When people bring up Children of God, there's always something vaguely accusatory about it," he told Playboy in a 2014 interview."It's guilt by association. I think it was really innocent on my parents' part. They really believed, but I don’t think most people see it that way. I've always thought that was strange and unfair.
McGowan was born in Florence, Italy, and her father was in charge of the country's chapter of Children of God. Because of the nature of the cult, she told Interview magazine in 1997 she has almost no memory of her parents during that entire period of her life. "You basically weren’t allowed to do anything, or you were made to feel guilty about any unnatural desire," she explained."If you talk to anybody who was in a group that basically dictates how you’re supposed to live and what you’re supposed to say and how you’re supposed to feel, from the time you’re 7 till the time you’re 22, it has a profound impact on you. It’s something you have to [consciously overcome] because all of your trigger points are.
"I would have dreams because I didn’t go to any psychiatrist or anything," she told The Hollywood Reporter."I had these dreams, and they started with betrayal, a sense of betrayal, and then they developed into me being able to look at these people and say, ‘You’re wrong. You’re wrong.’ And then the final incarnation of those dreams was my being able to calmly get up and walk away. And then I didn’t have them anymore.
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