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This explains a lot, actually.

15 Prominent People Who Have Had A Brush With A Cult

May 15, 2021

To keep this list below 1 million entries, we're not count Scientology as a cult today. We're interested in the slightly more obscure organizations that have roped politicians, actors, and influencers alike into their weird little rock-piling, sunbathing, kombucha-swilling rituals.

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Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder devival my 19-19-10 CRACKED.COM She spent three years of her childhood, starting at age 7, living on the Rainbow Family Commune-- - a 300-acre plot with no electricity. She credits her mother secretly showing her movies in a barn for sparking her interest in acting. — Source: Parade

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Andrew Keegan CRACKED.COM The handsome a *hole from 10 Things I Hate About You went on to co-re-found a funky little California spiritual community called Full Circle. It seems mostly harmless although in 2015 it was raided for distributing kombucha without a permit. — Source: Vice

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Jaden and Willow Smith CRACKED.COM In 2014, the Smiths along with some other influencer types - started a group called The Orgonite Society, or A Secret Society Of Individuals Who Create And Place Orgonite To Balance Gaia's Energies. Besides playing with rocks, the group also dabbles in the teachings of the The Sex Guru, that horny li'l freak from Wild, Wild, Country. — Source: Gawker

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Kylie Jenner CRACKED.CO Kylie got really into crystals in 2014. Like, more into crystals than your typical quirky aunt. She co-founded The Orgonite Society- a funky little group of famous weirdos whose aim is to balance the energies of the Earth using orgonite, a mineral that does not exist. — Source: Buzzfeed

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Patrick Hickey CRACKED.COM This Nevada state legislator spent a long time as a member of, and lobbyist for, the Unification Church. While he eventually left, he's remained in the marriage that he believes was hastily arranged by Jesus Christ himself, while he was in the cult. — Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal

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Michelle Pfeiffer CRACKED.COM As a young, aspiring actress, she received training from a couple who turned out to be Breatharians members of a cult who believe humans can survive on air and sunlight alone. She only noticed she was joining a cult when she saw her husband preparing for a role as a cult member, and realized... oh f* it me. — Source: Huffington Post

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Neil Bush CRACKED.COM Neil Bush, brother to George and Jeb, once went on a world tour with Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon. Rock and roll! The purpose was to promote a $400 billion tunnel between Russia and Alaska that would bring about world peace, um, somehow. — Source: Mother Jones

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Keira Maguire

Keira Maguire CRACKED.COM Maguire, who was on The Bachelor (Australia) in 2016, says her own father founded The Seaside Sect, a polygamous cult in Victoria. Her mother, one of 9 sister wives, got them the hell out of there when Keira was 5. — Source: Now To Love

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Christopher Owens CRACKED The indie rocker grew up in The Children of God until he was 16, traveling the world to actively recruit new members. When asked what it was like, he says Imagine being raised in the Taliban. — Source: The Guardian

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Valeria Lukyanova CRACKED.co This may be hard to believe, but The Human Barbie Doll'' has some f*ed up notions of what makes a healthy human body. She subscribes to Breatharianism, a cult that strives to subsist off of nothing but fresh air and sunshine. — Source: NY Daily News

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Rose McGowan CRACKED.COM McGowan grew up in an Italian Children of God commune. She escaped at age 9, before she personally experienced any funny business, but says women existed in the cult solely to serve the men sexually. — Source: DailyMail

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Patricia and David Arquette CRACKED.CO The Arquettes grew up in a Vermont commune co-founded by their parents, called Skymont Subud. It was a utopian society that somehow didn't include electricity, running water, or really any modern bathroom technology whatsoever. — Source: Oprah

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Angel Haze CRACKED.co Haze, now a singer and rapper, was a baby when her mother moved in with a preacher in the Apostolic Faith Church. She grew up unable to listen to music or wear jewelry, among other things, for fear of spontaneously dropping dead. — Source: The Guardian

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Joaquin, River, and Rain Phoenix GEN anation hfestspi in clastica ORGAN CRACKED.COM The Phoenix pham was in The Children of God until Joaquin was 4 years old. But actually, their last name was Bottom at the time. Their parents changed it after they left, to symbolize their rising from the metaphorical ashes of cult life. — Source: The Guardian

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Glenn Close CRACKED.COM She grew in a truly batsh*t ultra-conservative cult called the Moral Re-Armament. She traveled the world performing with the cult's official singing group, but says what really prepared her for an acting career was pretending to be into all that cult sh*t. — Source: Hollywood Reporter

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