Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast for Netflix original documentaries.

I'm Rebecca Lervoy, your host.

Each episode we take a close-up look at a Netflix original narrative documentary or docu series and I talk to the people who made

them. We go deep behind the scenes for answers to questions raised by what we just watched.

Today we're talking about the documentary,

Pray Away.

I'm joined by the film's director,

Christine's Delacchis, and producer Jess Devaney.

A note to listeners, this episode contains spoilers, so make sure to watch all of Prayaway before listening on.

In the 1970s, five men struggling with being gay in their evangelical church,

started a Bible study to help each other leave

the quote homosexual lifestyle.

They received tens of thousands of letters

from people asking for help

and became Exodus International, the largest and most controversial

conversion therapy organization in the world.

I was active in the gay community for 13 years.

I was in it for six years, then struggled for 13 years. I was in it for six years then struggle for five years

before finding true freedom. It was 13 years for me. For for me we both walked

away from it. I personally came out of the homosexual lifestyle.

And we're just saying that if you want to change,

there is a way to do it.

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