This Was Glenn Close's Experience With A Cult

Publish date: 2024-05-06

Like many actors with ties to cults, Glenn Close was brought into one as a child. According to Now To Love, her parents moved her family to Switzerland when she was just 7 years old so that they could live with the right-wing spiritual movement known as Moral Re-Armament, or MRA. The cult pretty much dictated every facet of her life until she made the bold choice to live it on her own terms in her early 20s. "[For years], I wouldn't trust any of my instincts because [my beliefs] had all been dictated to me," said Close, describing a culture of control and shame. "You basically weren't allowed to do anything, or you were made to feel guilty about any unnatural desire. 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 [wrong]."

It took years of hard emotional work for the award-winning actress overcome the psychological damage of growing up in MRA. She was haunted by dreams of betrayal, but was finally able to turn them around, face her past, and walk away from it all. She was even able to forgive her father for putting her through the terrible ordeal.

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