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Welcome to TrustMe. The podcast about cults, extreme belief and the abuse of power from two suppressive people who've actually experienced it, I am Lola Blonk.

And I'm Megan Elizabeth.

Today our guest is April Snow. She is a former member of Scientology and former member of the Sea Organization within the Church.

Scientology folks, we did it finally at long last.

We win!

She's going to talk to us about growing up in Scientology.

We also get into the rules she was forced to follow, the rules she decided to break, how she got out and what it was like when her family and friends disconnected from her.

Yes, so as a quick warning of the discussion that is about to happen with our culties thing, there will be some talk of suicide, so just giving you a heads up for that.

Okay, here we go. Megan, won't you tell me the cultiest thing that's happened to you this week?

Well, nothing has happened to me this week.

So I am using a new story. We discussed a couple months ago about a father of a Sarah Lawrence student who got a group of his daughter's girlfriends involved in a very weird to put it plainly cults where he was the leader.

He was an ex-police man. He was very charismatic. He got them all involved in this weird world that he created, which is also so strange because his daughter was there.

And I think he got a few of them into prostitution and it's all very awful and layered, but there's information coming out of his trial that a lot of those girls tried to commit suicide.

And it was often after they had spoken to him about those tendencies, they would be you know opening up to him.

And then he would come visit them after they did that and be like very involved in the recovery.

The treatment team said that he would insert himself into their recovery. So fucking wild.

He portrayed himself as a mental health expert and was like diagnosing these poor girls.

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