Rose McGowan Opens Up About Years in Cult

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Rose McGowan reveals that she spent the first nine years of her life in a cult in Italy in a shocking new interview.

The Conan the Barbarian star opens up about being a part of the Children of God sect, a group that celebrated free love and prepared for the second coming of Jesus.

The Florence-born stars parents were members of the sects church in the Italian countryside, and while actress remembers the setting as idyllic and pastoral, she says she knew she didnt fit in with the group.

Specifically, the former Charmed star says she wasnt into the hippie lifestyle, noting to People, I came out of the womb waving red lipstick,and also had a big problem with the subservient role of women in the sect.

I did not want to be like those women, McGowan states. There were basically there to serve the men sexually.

According to the actress, when the cult began advocating child-adult sexual relations, her father pulled the family out of it, and took them to America.

My dad was strong enough to realize that this hippie love had gone south, she explains.

Years later, McGowan returned to her childhood town with her then-boyfriend Marilyn Manson. We created quite a stir, she admits.

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