- Glenn Close spoke more about being raise in a cult in the docuseries "The Me You Can't See."
- She said the experience has left her with "trauma" that has affected her "psychologically."
- "We never went on any vacations or had any collective memories," Close said.
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Glenn Close opened up about the personal trauma she's gone through in her life because she was raised in a cult.
The eight-time Oscar-nominated actress spoke for the Apple TV Plus docuseries, "The Me You Can't See," co-created by Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, and revealed what it was like in her childhood.
"I was in this group called MRA and it was basically a cult, everyone spouted the same things and there's a lot of rules, a lot of control," Close said in the interview.
"MRA" stands for Moral Re-Armament, a conservative religious group that Close's father, Dr. William Taliaferro Close, joined in 1954. Glenn said she was 7 years old at the time. The group was founded in 1938 by minister Frank Buchman and is based on "Four Absolutes": honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love. Its core belief is that change in the world comes with seeking change in yourself.
"Because of how we were raised, anything you thought you'd do for yourself was considered selfish," Close said. "We never went on any vacations or had any collective memories of stuff other than what we went through, which was really awful."
Close said her father was so engrossed in MRA that he moved her family to its headquarters in Switzerland.
"It's astounding that something you go through at such a young stage in your life still has such a potential to be destructive," she said. "That's childhood trauma, because of the devastation, emotional and psychological, of the cult."
Though she has gone on to become one of the greatest American actors of all time, Close, who's been married three times, admitted she has not been "successful in my relationships" and that she's "sorry about that."
"The Me You Can't See" features a collection of stories from people across the world all discussing mental heath. The docuseries, streaming now on Apple TV Plus, also features Lady Gaga speaking out about how she was raped at the age of 19.
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