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Cults to Consciousness

I Was the 13th Wife of Sam Bateman (Here’s My WHOLE Story)

Cults to Consciousness

Shelise Ann Sola, Jonathan C Rosales

Society & Culture

4.8570 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

As seen in the hit Netflix docuseries, “Trust Me: The False Prophet”, Nomz was raised inside the FLDS, a highly controlled Mormon polygamist sect, where her father was removed by leadership and her family was fractured and reassigned to different caretakers. As she reached her teens, she began to question her environment and briefly developed a sense of independence, but this was quickly overtaken when she became targeted by Sam Bateman, a breakaway leader who claimed prophetic authority.

She describes being coerced into a forced spiritual marriage through manipulation, threats against her family, and intense psychological pressure, including the use of other wives and even children to enforce compliance. Over time, she was systematically broken down, isolated from others, and controlled through fear, secrecy, and indoctrination, eventually entering a state of emotional numbness and survival compliance. She now speaks out publicly to raise awareness and prevent others from experiencing similar ab*se, using her story as both a warning and an act of advocacy.

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0:32.1

he was threatened by the ones that would probably start questioning and wondering what's going on, he sent away

0:38.4

thousands. And so there was so many women and children that didn't grow up with fathers. And we were

0:45.0

all placed under these different caretakers, we called them. He targeted me a lot more than any of

0:51.9

the others. I was supposed to be the third, but I held out for a year and a half,

0:57.0

the more women and the more girls he took on, the more pressure was on me. And he would use his nine-year-olds

1:03.8

to condemn me and call me and put pressure on me, knelt around me and put their hands on my head and stuff and

1:12.4

like chanted some stuff up to God and therefore I was married.

1:16.9

Every day he would talk, he would like select different girls.

1:21.0

They were going to be with him.

1:22.8

That was a lot of times he would just disappear.

1:25.9

For days, Sam was always telling me, do not tell your

1:29.2

family about this. He would threaten with a lot of other things about the different things that

1:35.5

would happen to them and me if I did. My mom didn't have any backup. I still remember the last

1:42.6

conversation I had with her. She was crying and stuff and she asked me,

1:46.7

are you coming back? Right before they actually pulled us over, then he tried ditching the cops.

1:53.0

We all were lying to the FBI. Every one of us, even the younger ones, we all were very trained in it.

1:59.5

After coming to a realization that my entire life I had been lied to, I was born and raised

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