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During the second episode of the program The Me You Can’t See , the actress Glenn Close shared that he grew up in a religious group during his childhood, an experience that left him with severe trauma.
The actress of 74 years old confessed that she was only a girl when her father, William Taliaferro Close, began to associate with a conservative religious group called Moral Re-Armament to which he united his whole family. The eight-time Oscar nominee moved to Switzerland and lived in the organization’s headquarters.
“They basically told you how you should live, what you should say and how you should to feel ”, he confessed in the interview for the program created by Harry and Oprah Winfrey for Apple TV +. “The way in which you raise, everything you do for yourself is considered ‘selfish’. We never went on vacation nor do we have memories of things that were ours ”, he explained.
The actress revealed that living in this way caused her major damage to your future relationships and She was amazed at how much something she was affected by what happened at such a young stage in her life. In addition, he said that to this day still continues to impact him personally,
“I think it’s a trauma from my childhood. Due to the emotional and psychological devastation of the cult, I have not been successful in my relationships, nor have I been able to find a partner stable “, said the three-time divorcee,” I can never change those points of sensitivity, but at least I can be aware of them and avoid situations that make me vulnerable, especially in relationships. ”
The sect Glenn Close lived in was founded in the decade of the 25 by Reverend Frank Buchman who died on 1961. The religious group was governed by the principles of honesty, generosity, purity and love. As time went on he became more and more extremist and in 2001 was renamed “Initiatives of Change”.
Close was not the only famous who has faced the traumas of growing up in a cult. The Oscar winner, Joaquin Phoenix, also lived his childhood in a religious cult . The actor from 46 and his family lived in Venezuela as part of “La Familia Internacional” from which they emerged when they discovered that they used sex to attract more followers.
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