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Glenn Close Admits She Grew Up In A Cult

Glenn Close

(Photo : Reuters) Glenn Close

Glenn Close admitted that she spent 15 years of her life in the Moral Re-Armament's conservative religious community in Switzerland.

The spiritual group is now called Initiatives of Changes.

The 67-year old six-time Oscar-nominated actress admitted that she lived in the said cultic community until she was 22 years old and, that the experience had such a "profound impact" on her that she has had to deal with the consequences for years.

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''[For years], I wouldn't trust any of my instincts because [my beliefs] had all been dictated to me," Close shared with the Hollywood Reporter.

Close's father, Dr William Taliaferro Close, was the one who had become engrossed with the teachings of the movement, prompting him to relocate his whole family to the group's headquarters in the tiny village of Caux, overlooking Lake Geneva. Close was only seven at that time.

According to the "Guardians of the Galaxy" star, they weren't allowed to do anything and they were constantly made to feel guilty if they had desired anything that was deemed "unnatural".

"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 seven 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]," she shared.

Although she didn't give the full details of how she left the group, she did say that she was prompted to leave by a lot of things but that she didn't have the necessary tools to leave despite the fact that she succeeded.

Close shared that although her father was the one who had brought them to the cult, she said she has forgiven him and that he experiences she had with the group have made her a better actress.

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