Daughter from ‘America’s most hated family’ has completely transformed her life almost 20 years on
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A woman who appeared on Louis Theroux’s documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, has completely turned her life around.
Back in 2007, Theroux visited the Westboro Baptist Church, in Kansas, where he unpacked their extreme and very uncomfortable beliefs and practices, including picketing soldiers’ funerals and celebrating some of the world’s biggest disasters.
Theroux again decided to film them for a follow-up in 2019 with the release of Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family.
But during the time in between both documentaries, something had changed.
Megan Phelps-Roper – daughter of Shirley Phelps-Roper and granddaughter of Fred Phelps, who founded the church – had decided to leave.
When Megan left the group, the young woman was cut off from her entire family.
However, since she walked away in 2012, Megan has completely turned her life around.
“The freedom was heady,” she wrote in her 2019 memoir, Unfollow.
“… It was devastating to lose my beloved family, my entire world, but I knew I had to walk away and start over.
“With each new kindness, I understood with ever greater clarity the depths of my ignorance about the world.
“It was starting to occur to me that there might be a lot more goodness in the world than I had believed.”
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