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“It can easily take you back to feeling like you’re in Gloriavale,” she explains. “That feeling of being an animal in the zoo.” It can strip away your selfhood. “Each of us have our own different experience and story from growing up in Gloriavale.”
TVNZ’s new documentary Escaping Utopia, a three-part investigation that documents the stories of Kiwis who’ve fled Gloriavale, she hopes it might provide salvation for others.
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"These women are dominated from birth, they are controlled from birth. The moment they were born, there was a pathway for them to work on the teams," he said.
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“Some of my siblings wrote hate letters to me,” she says. “I was pretty much in shock on the three-hour ride to Christchurch. Never been inside an airport or on a plane.”
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