Glenn Close Says She Relied on Her ‘Active Imagination’ as a Child While Growing Up in a Cult-Like Religious Group
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Glenn Close is opening up about her unconventional childhood.
The actress, 77, said in a Jan. 19 broadcast of Today’s Sunday Sitdown that she relied on her “active imagination” while growing up in a cult-like religious group.
Close spent her childhood as a member of the Moral Re-Armament, founded by Rev. Frank Buchman, who believed people could avoid war if they experienced a moral transformation. The Moral Re-Armament largely died out when Buchman passed away in 1961, and his successor Peter Howard four years later.
The actress, born in Connecticut, was moved to Switzerland at a young age to be raised near the group’s headquarters.
Now, she has told anchor Willie Geist how she resisted the ideology.
“I’m still working it out,” Close said. “From a very early age, when we were running feral in the Connecticut countryside, I always had an incredibly active imagination.”
She continued, “I could take myself out of situations sometimes with my imagination, and not let it get into me as deep as it might have. I think that’s what literally kept me on course of doing what I wanted to do at a very early age, which was be an actress.”
n 2018, the Emmy winner told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview that she once resented her father for getting the family involved with the group, but has learned to understand why her parents were susceptible to the indoctrination.
Close, ultimately, left Moral Re-Armament at age 22 while she was studying acting in college.
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