15 Female Celebs Everyone Forgets Had A Dark Past

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13. Glenn Close

Glenn Close, the 6-time Oscar Award-nominated actress, has made a notable mark in numerous motion picture productions throughout her career. Despite her current popularity as one of the most talented actresses in Hollywood, what Glenn Close’s past contains is rather dark. When she was seven years old, her parents joined the Moral Re-Armament (MRA) cult, an extreme conservative group, and remained involved with the group for 15 years. Practices and beliefs of the MRA cult were based around four absolutes—absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness, and absolute love. Despite the harsh ideals of the group, Glenn Close ending up touring the world with the MRA singing chorus, Up The People, until she was in college. She now holds that the cult experience actually helped boost her abilities as an actress, having had to fake her role and belief in the cult throughout while she was with her family.

12. Rose McGowan

Rose McGowan has made recent headlines for her involvement with the recent shocking discoveries about Harvey Weinstein, but this was not the only time McGowan was involved in more sinister aspects of an institution. Growing up in Florence, Italy with her father, who ran an Italian chapter of the Children of God cult, Rose McGowan got her fill of patriarchal misogyny early on in life. As a child, McGowan traveled to several other communes in Europe as part of her involvement with the cult, which believed in the maintaining of free love, in coordination with prepping for the second coming of Jesus Christ. The cult encouraged members, including the children, to ‘do the deed’ at a young age. Fortunately enough, McGowan and her family escaped before she had to engage in any of the abhorrent practices of the Children of God.

11. Patricia Arquette

Internationally-recognized Oscar and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Patricia Arquette, known for her role as Allison Dubois in episodes of the Golden Globe Award-nominated series Medium, as well as for her role in the renowned drama Boyhood, has also seen her fair share of cultist practices prior to her rise to fame in Hollywood. Arquette was raised in the Skymont Subud commune, a community free of “privileged conveniences,” such as bathrooms, electricity, or running water. The belief held by those who practiced this rare religion believe in awakening the inner self in order to gain more fulfillment in life. Arquette lived in the commune with the rest of her family and her parents’ friends where they endured the wrath of her abusive drug-addicted father, Lewis Arquette, who treated the family’s five children horribly.

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