RHOBH’s Amanda Frances reveals the truth behind her shocking cult past
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If you thought the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills drama was all about handbags and dinner party shade, you haven’t met Amanda Frances yet.
The season 15 newbie is bringing a backstory that’s way deeper than most Bravo intros, and it’s already bubbling up this week thanks to Dorit Kemsley.
After Dorit teased something she’d read about Amanda’s past, the cult talk is swirling on X again.
But here’s what’s actually been said by Amanda herself, straight from her own words and context she’s given publicly over the years.
In previews for the January 29 episode of RHOBH, Dorit Kemsley references an online story about Amanda having been in a cult.
The conversation starts as typical Housewives tea… someone reads a headline, shares it at a gathering, and boom, it becomes part of the group dynamic.
What’s interesting here is that Dorit isn’t sharing a first-hand account; she’s reacting to something she’s “seen.”
While Dorit’s comment sparked gasps and curiosity among cast members, the buzz online surged because of what Amanda has actually talked about openly before joining Bravo.
Long before she stepped onto the RHOBH set, Amanda Frances publicly wrote about a chapter of her life she describes as being in a “cult.”
In a 2011 blog post on her own site, she wrote extremely candidly about spending around two years in what she now characterises as a controlling, frightening religious environment, a place with strict rules governing nearly every part of life.
In her own words, Amanda said: “Sometimes I will try to get comfortable enough with someone to say that I was in a really controlling, really frightening situation… I tell the truth. Sometimes I will say I was in a cult.”
She detailed limits on how often she could call home, who she could talk to, restrictions on dating, visiting other churches, or even talking about her life to anyone not part of that system.
That kind of isolation and strict behavioural control is part of why she labelled it that way.
Another powerful part of her account describes the night she left. She wrote about driving away in the middle of the night with everything she owned, “afraid of everything, but knowing if I could just make it out, I would go to school, live my life, and make a difference in the world.”
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