PATREON VAULT: Interview with Anna LeBaron from "Daughters of the Cult"
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Three years ago Ash and Cam had the pleasure of speaking with Anna LeBaron, one of 51 children of murderous Mormon polygamist cult leader Ervil Lebaron, AKA the Mormon Manson, and author of the harrowing and poignant memoir The Polygamist's Daughter.
Anna's book describes her experiences of being shipped off to Mexico without her mother or siblings when she was just a child, her subsequent grooming by a man that her father had promised her to, working 12+ hour days and the poverty that she lived in until she courageously escaped her father's cult at the age of 13.
In this inspiring interview, Anna shares what her post-cult life is like, and how she has found peace and healing.
Listen to these episodes first:
TRENDING CASE: "Daughters of the Cult"- Ervil LeBaron aka the "Mormon Manson"TRENDING CASE: "Daughters of the Cult"- Blood Atonement and the Murder of a Rival Cult Leader
Watch Daughters of the Culton Hulu here: https://www.hulu.com/series/daughters-of-the-cult
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| 0:00.0 | That is so fucked up. It's fucked up. So fucked up. It is just so damn fucked up. That's fucked up. |
| 0:18.4 | Hey guys. Welcome back to the podcast. This is That's So Fucked Up, a podcast about cults, murder, and other generally fucked up stuff. We're your hosts. I'm Ashley Richards. And I'm Cam Dexter. And we are super excited for our guest today. Today, here with us, we have Anna LaBaron, the author of the incredible book that I |
| 0:40.9 | finished in two days on audiobook, so I highly recommend it, The Polygamist's Daughter. So hi, Anna. |
| 0:47.8 | Thank you so much for being here. Well, hello, and it's a pleasure to join you. I have been interviewed on lots of podcasts, |
| 0:57.0 | and I think this one is probably going to be the most fun interview I've done based on the title of your podcast and just what I've read about it in preparation for coming here and getting to share with your audience. |
| 1:13.9 | Well, you know, we do have a lot of fun. |
| 1:16.2 | We talk about pretty dark subjects, but we try to have fun with it because like you said, before we started recording. |
| 1:24.6 | It's if you don't laugh at that at this stuff man. Yeah. My siblings and I, |
| 1:30.3 | when we get together and we talk about our shared history, we spend a lot of time laughing. |
| 1:37.7 | Not that anything that happened to us was funny. It's just, it's so messed up. Your word has, starts with the letter F, |
| 1:47.2 | arriving what we experienced, but it's so messed up that you either laugh about it and how |
| 1:55.0 | incredibly horrifying it was. So you either laugh about it or you just cry your eyeballs out. And we've done |
| 2:03.7 | our fair share of crying. I promise you that. But now that we have so much distance between ourselves |
| 2:10.6 | and the events that happened, it's just healthier now to laugh. Yeah, I do think that saying |
| 2:16.4 | laughter is the best medicine is really pretty true. One of the best. Yeah, I do think that saying laughter is the best medicine is really |
| 2:18.9 | pretty true, one of the best. Yeah, that and my siblings and I also say that at times that we've |
| 2:25.6 | sat around talking about the events of our shared history has been the best therapy. |
| 2:32.0 | I've been through 10 years of professional therapy combined |
| 2:37.2 | between two different therapists and, you know, my siblings and I getting together and talking |
| 2:44.4 | about it has been included in the parts of where, of my story where I talk about how healing has happened for me |
| 2:53.8 | so that I can talk about these things and not get retramatized in the retelling of it. |
| 3:00.6 | Yeah. You know what you're alluding to, what your brothers and sisters went through. |
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