Gold Medalist Noah Lyles Reveals He Grew up in a Cult: ‘Definitely Messed Up’
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Fresh off his success at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Noah Lyles is shedding light on his childhood.
“I actually grew up in a cult,” the track-and-field star, 27, revealed during a recent episode of the “Everybody Wants to Be Us” podcast. “It was a cult. It just wasn’t at the level of, ‘Yeah, OK. We’re gonna drink the Kool-Aid.’ But it was super strict.”
Without naming the organization, Lyles went on to share: “All the moms had to be homeschooling their kids and the father was the head of the household, and the church told you who you could date, who you couldn’t date. If you got married, it had to be through [them]. That type of behavior.”
As a result of the harsh rules, Lyles and his family left the organization and moved to North Carolina. “We were going to start [at] another church, only to figure out they wanted to do the same thing except they wanted to be the head instead of, not the tail,” he explained. “So, we left that, but that kind of really messed up my view [of the] church, and it definitely messed up my mom’s view, so it took her a long time. And even now, she still struggles to trust churches in general, but she never lost her faith in the religion.”
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