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Rachel Jeffs: A Brave Survivor

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

True Crime

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

For years, Rachel Jeffs lived behind the walls of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ-Latter Day Saints, the FLDS. There, she was abused: physically, mentally and sexually, by Warren Jeffs, the leader of the polygamist group. He was also her father. Rachel has managed to escape the group, and in doing so, is telling the world about her experience as a member of the FLDS, and the control that women inside the group live under. In this episode of Off Script, she shares her story with host Andrew Iden. It's a story of bravery and survival, how she escaped, and even her current views on religion and spirituality. GET RACHEL'S BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Escaped-Polygamy-Father/dp/0062670522 JOIN OUR PATREON: http://www.deviantpodcast.com Visit DEVIANT's socials: http://www.instagram.com/deviant.podcast http://www.tiktok.com/@deviant.podcast Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6

Hey everybody. So today we're going to introduce you to Rachel Jeff's. And if the name Jeffs

0:34.7

rings a bell, here's why.

0:54.5

You may know about the FLDS Church, the fundamentalist church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which for years, for decades, has believed in and engaged in polygamy and has long been facing allegations of human trafficking, sex abuse, and a number of other horrific things.

1:01.5

And in 2011, their leader, Warren Jeffs, he was arrested, and he has since been convicted of two counts of sexual assault of a child.

1:04.9

And that's why that name Jeffs probably rings a bell, because Rachel Jeffs is actually

1:09.3

one of Warren's daughters.

1:11.7

He has more than 40 children.

1:14.3

And she managed to escape the group after years of abuse.

1:18.2

And so in this conversation, she talks really openly and with a lot of candor, honestly,

1:23.4

about what the escape was like.

1:25.1

And she also talks with me about her uncle, Lyle Jeffs.

1:29.2

He was one of the folks inside the FLDS who worked really hard to try to keep her from escaping,

1:36.0

to try to keep her inside the walls of this group.

1:40.0

So she has an incredible story of survival, bravery, and it's really about her standing up to a group that was giving women no voice.

1:50.9

So I hope you'll sit back and listen.

1:53.4

This is a really interesting conversation from a woman who has been through some horrific things and has managed to come out on the other side and is now a speaker

2:01.1

and an author and has a lot of things to say that I think a lot of people need to hear.

2:05.7

Here it is my conversation with Rachel Jeffs.

2:23.9

I'll start by saying I know that this is not easy stuff to talk about, so I appreciate your candor and your honesty in talking about this.

2:36.2

If we can start from the beginning, and that is, can you talk a little bit about your childhood in the FLDS community, just kind of in broad terms, what it was like?

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