Freeform True Crime Doc ‘How I Escaped My Cult’ Addresses Warren Jeffs, More
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Freeform’s newest true crime series highlights the survivors of modern-day cults.
Us Weekly can exclusively reveal that How I Escaped My Cult will premiere Thursday, February 20, on Freeform and the entire 10-part season will be available Friday, February 21, on Hulu. According to the official teaser trailer, the series centers around a different cult in each episode through first-hand accounts from those who found a way to successfully leave their sects and their influential leaders behind.
“All I wanted was to escape from him,” says one woman who is interviewed, while another noted, “I was afraid that I was going to die. I had this spirit in me that I was not going to let anyone take me down.”
Footage in the sneak peek showed various people discussing how they were “trapped in a cult.”
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“If I got caught, he would for sure kill me,” another unnamed woman recalled. “I thought, I am finally free but that was just the beginning.”
How I Escaped My Cult specifically showed a photo of Warren Jeffs while a man added, “It was an emotional battle. We were brainwashed.” Jeffs, 69, the president of the polygamous cult Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, is currently serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two 2011 convictions.
The synopsis for How I Escaped My Cult teases how the true crime series “takes viewers into insidious modern-day cults through the unique lens of members who endured unspeakable trauma, and the shocking investigations into these oppressive groups.” How I Escaped My Cult included “detailed, first-hand accounts from former cult members, their loved ones, and the investigators who helped bring these tormentors to justice, each episode follows the unique and harrowing journey of a survivor from their earliest cult experiences and revelations, all the way up to their heart-pounding escapes.”
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