Breaking Character: Ex-Acting Students Speak Up (Part 2)

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

Last week, Alberta Mayne Bligh, Brooke Henderson, and Erin Boyes dove into what attracted them to Michèle Lonsdale-Smith’s acting classes – the good, the bad, and the messy. Our three guests are ex-students, each with their own thriving careers in film, theater, television, directing, development and even art therapy. And they are among the 26 ex-students who recently spoke up about their experience under the tutelage of Lonsdale-Smith in a revelatory story published in The Cut. If you missed Part 1, go back and take a listen. Now, in Part 2, they share their tipping points: when they realized that they were in a toxic relationship and how it ended.

Please note, this series includes details of sexual abuse. Listener discretion is strongly advised. If you, or someone who know, is a survivor of sexual assault, abuse, grooming, child abuse, or human trafficking, RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline offers support at 800.656.HOPE (4673).

Notes:

May 16, 2023 article published by The Cut about Michèle Lonsdale Smith.

Alberta Mayne Bligh can be reached on Instagram and Facebook.

Erin Boyes produced Three Days with her producing and writing partner, Dani Barker. It touches on the culty side of acting classes. Here’s Erin’s website: http://www.erinboyes.com/

Brooke Henderson is known for filmwork but she’s pivoted from acting and is now doing post-grad work in art therapy in Toronto. You can find her on Instagram.

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit cultier, those are the hosts,
0:03.6	and don't reflect the official policy or position of the podcast, right, sir?
0:07.6	Correct.
0:08.3	Any of the, quote, fire content, I prefer lava content provided by our guests,
0:12.9	bloggers, sponsors, or authors of the opinion, and are not intended to malign,
0:17.3	a religion, a group, a club, an organization, business individual,
0:22.0	anyone or anything, unless, sir?
0:23.8	You're a douchebag.
0:24.6	Yeah, I mean, pretty much.
0:26.8	Also, we're not doctors, psychologists or wizards.
0:29.5	We're just two non-experts trying to make you a friendly and formative podcast
0:33.5	based on our experience that we've turned into wisdom.
0:35.6	Okay.
0:36.0	Good talk.
0:46.8	Hey everybody, Sarah Edmondson here.
0:49.3	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippie, Sarah's husband,
0:52.4	and you're listening to a little bit cultier, aka a LBC.
0:57.4	A podcast about what happens when devotion goes to the dark side.
1:00.8	We've been there, and back again, a little about us,
1:03.5	true story, we met, and fell in love in a cult,
1:06.8	and then we woke up and got the hell out of dodge.
1:09.2	And the whole thing was captured in the HBO documentary series The Vow,
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