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Welcome to Dirty Rush, the truth about sorority life with your host, me, Gia Judice,

Daisy Kent, and Jennifer Fessler.

Okay, folks, not to be dramatic, but this really is the episode that even our producers were hesitant to do because it involves breaking an oath sworn by those who joined Greek life.

We are lifting the veil on the most mysterious part of joining a sorority, which has never been discussed publicly until now.

We're talking about initiation, the transition from pledge to sorority sister, a process that has been kept top secret for well

over a century. This bonding ritual is so steeped in tradition. Generations of pledges have been sworn to

secrecy, but today, those secrets are coming out. The following guests agreed to reveal what

really happens during initiation, provided they

remain completely anonymous, to the point where we, as hosts, couldn't speak to them directly.

That is how sacred this pact for sisterhoods around the country is. The voices you are about to

hear have been altered. The identities blurred, but the stories are 100% authentic. This is what

every sorority in America doesn't want you to know. So initiation is definitely one of those things

in sorority life that is, that people are more apprehensive to talk about. I feel like because it's so ritual-based and it's so individual to the sorority, people are super

secretive about it.

And there's definitely details that I feel protective over.

But it's hard to explain why.

I think just because it's so individual to your sorority and like that is your entrance to all of it.

And it feels so secret.

But there definitely are some things that I am willing to share.

I think mostly it's just kind of a blur.

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