‘I escaped a CULT – I couldn’t even pick my own clothes or friends’
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A couple who say they escaped a “cult” have lifted the lid on strict rules that controlled every part of their lives – from who they could see to what they could wear.
Andrew and Karen, both 37, claim they were banned from going to college and choosing their own friends.
The pair, who fell in love while part of the Jehovah’s Witness religion, say they finally broke free in 2023 after years of control.
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“They stole a time in my life away from me that I will never get back,” Karen, from Conyers, Georgia, US, told Need To Know.
“Andrew and I always had to be so careful with everything we did, or where we went, or what we said, because we were being watched constantly.”
Andrew said: “I wasn’t allowed to date. Watch certain movies, listen to certain music, or have any ‘worldly’ friends.
“I was very sheltered. It was really all I knew.”
Karen joined the religion at 16 after her mother, who was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness but rarely went to meetings, lost her brother and turned to the faith as a way to cope with her grief.
Andrew was born into it and knew no other way of life.
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