Not Your Mormon Poster Child with Ellee Duke

Girlscamp

Hayley Rawle

Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of suicide and sexual assault. Please take care while listening. Ellee Duke grew up the picture-perfect Mormon girl, but after moving to Nashville for a record deal at 18, she began to question everything. Her story includes a relationship that turned abusive and the church’s poor response, family struggling to make sense of her faith transition, and a lot of processing, healing, and reclamation through music. Join the Girlscamp: After Dark Patreon account ⁠here for two bonus episodes per month and more. For more Girlscamp content follow along on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠TikTok⁠ and ⁠YouTube⁠. For ad inquiries please email [email protected]. Ellee Duke on Spotify Ellee Duke on Instagram Ellee Duke on TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	G-I-R-L-S-C-A-M-P is Girls' Camp.
0:11.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Girls' Camp podcast.
0:14.7	I'm your host, Haley Raw, and I am thrilled to be joined today by Ellie Duke.
0:19.7	Hello.
0:20.3	Welcome. We were just saying this has been a long
0:24.6	time coming. Oh, like years. Years. Like since you started. I know. And we've been in contact. We've
0:30.0	been like sort of passing through similar places, but it just hasn't happened until today.
0:35.3	It's perfect. Which feels very kismet. I'm going to read your
0:39.6	intro. Ellie Duke is a billboard charting recording artist and songwriter with credits for
0:45.6	artists like Slater, Lucas Graham, Charlotte Lawrence, and Walk Off the Earth, her latest single
0:50.7	poster child, which was released September 12th, reckons with her Orthodox Mormon
0:55.8	upbringing, which is a theme we are going to be diving into today.
1:00.3	Let's go.
1:01.0	Yeah, which is part of why it feels so kismet that you're here.
1:04.2	I don't even think I told you this, but I have had multiple listeners sending me your videos,
1:09.8	sending me poster child specifically, and they're like,
1:12.2	you need to talk to Ellie. I'm like, I know I've been meaning to. You're like we finally got you
1:17.8	here. You have quite the story. We've been voice memoing. So I got a little preview. I'm sorry.
1:23.4	I sent you so many. No, it was perfect. I can't wait to unpack it all here. We're going to be talking
1:28.3	about your Mormon upbringing, where you came from, and then a lot about where you are now and how
1:35.1	your music and your art is a way of, as I see it, as an outside party, reclaiming, kind of
1:43.3	rewriting a lot of things from your past so let's start
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