Five artists who grew up in cults
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From cult success to mega stardom, life gets a whole lot weirder for most people when they get famous. Suddenly, their lives are under constant scrutiny from “their audience”, an entity that is simultaneously all-powerful yet completely unknowable.
Whose every demand is as vague as the memory of a dream, yet expected to be obeyed to the letter. Who wants complete authenticity from their heroes yet will never accept anything that doesn’t apply to their mental image of them.
Despite the madness that surrounds them, though, most famous people will be told just how lucky they are to be in their position, and just how grateful they should be for the privilege. A life of cognitive dissonance that you hate and love in equal measure.
However, some famous people are well familiar with living life this way. Some know exactly how it feels to have their life dictated by a force they simultaneously hate, fear and love in equal measure. To lead a completely separate life from everyone in the real world and think that it’s completely normal until they meet someone from outside of it. This is because there are more than a few famous people who grew up in cults.
So let’s look at five of them to see how they made the journey from a childhood of servitude to an adulthood of fame, and whether the two are all that different from each other.
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