Sects are organizations that are created for the sake of money and power. recruiters can pester people on the street, invite them to some seminars, send letters, etc.
Sectarians are often those who are experiencing some kind of crisis in life, those who are uncomfortable and ill in the new environment, for example, people who were forced to retire.
Unfortunately, getting into a sect, a person can lose his job or family, break all ties with society. The rich and famous are no exception. Many were members of the sect, and we can learn about their experiences from the media.
10. Nikita Dzhigurda
This artist has become popular due to his shocking behavior. This can be explained by the fact that he is trying to attract attention.
But the actor himself admitted that he suffers from psychopathy. Once he was a follower of Kabbalah. But this was not enough for him. He decided to create his sect, jigurdism. He announced that he is a god in the flesh.
9. Rose McGowan
The future actress spent the first 9 years of her life in the commune "Children of God." These sectarians propagate free love. The girl recalls that their family was forced to break off all relations with the outside world. They did not have newspapers or television.
Rose herself did not like the commune, especially their attitude towards women. The sectarians were sure that the beautiful half of humanity should satisfy the whims of a man all his life. Sometimes they were forced to “work” in bars in order to lure new people into their ranks.
Rose was lucky that her parents did change their minds and left the sect, having fled to the United States. But they decided on this only after its leaders allowed intimate relations between adults and children.
8. Anna Bolshova
Because of the sect, the once-prosperous family of the actress's parents collapsed. Her parents are the scientist-physicist Leonid and the doctor Natalya.
Anna and her sister Alexandra were surrounded by the love and care of their mother, since childhood the girl was engaged in singing, English, drawing, skiing.
30 years of a successful marriage ended after the meeting of Natalia and Anna Kanaeva. She told her about India. The whole Bolshoi family began to attend lectures, and then agreed to see the Valley of the Sun settlement. Here Kanaev was called Asmito.
A new friend began to give advice, intervened in family affairs. She decided that Leonid would now live with her. Natalya could not accept this, but her husband and daughters were already influenced by the sect and took up arms against her. Anna called Asmito's mother.
Leonid donated about 50 thousand dollars to this sect. Asmito ruled everything, she also selected couples for the sectarians, brought out all the intimate details for general discussion.
On her orders, Anna married her son Asmito, who was then only 18 years old. Her second husband was also a member of the community Alexander Makarenko.
Anna Bolshova denies her connection with the sect, accuses reporters of having inflated this story.
7. Tom Cruise
The founder of Scientology was Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Now this sect, according to various estimates, from hundreds of thousands to 10 million fans. Her gurus promise their followers deliverance from any disease, wealth and glory. But in fact, they preach dangerous ideas, for example, deny modern medicine.
Tom Cruise joined Scientologists in 1990; he was brought into the sect by his first wife, Mimi Rogers. The actor has repeatedly said that thanks to this teaching, he got rid of dyslexia. He always supported the ideas of this organization.
He repeatedly spoke out against psychiatry, called it "Nazi science" and criticized those who drink antidepressants. Moreover, he tried to promote Scientology in Germany and France. It was because of this hobby that the marriage of Tom and Nicole Kidman broke up, although this was not discussed publicly.
Actress Katie Holmes agreed to follow the rules of the Church, but she also ran away from Cruise after 6 years of marriage, abandoned Scientology beliefs and decided to raise their common child in the Catholic faith.
Due to the fact that his daughter is not a Scientologist, Tom was forbidden to date her. And he refused the 10 dates he had put to him a month, choosing a religion rather than a family.
6. Winona Ryder
From the age of 7 the girl lived in the Rainbow hippie commune. The families included in it were engaged in agriculture or worked on the farm. They got up early and went to bed immediately after sunset.
The commune was forbidden to use electricity. Winona read books all her free time. The Ryder family moved when the girl was 10 years old.
5. Fedor Chistyakov
The famous rock musician who created the Zero band in 1992 ended up in a pre-trial detention center. He was charged with attempted murder of his roommate, Irina Linnik, whom he attacked with a knife.
At the trial, he said that he mistook her for a witch, and therefore wanted to kill her. Fedor was recognized as mentally ill and sent to compulsory treatment. After he went free, it was difficult for him to adapt to a normal life, he was on the verge of suicide.
Fyodor fell into the Jehovah's Witnesses sect, and they saved him. He continues to be her follower, does not smoke or drink, does not sing his old songs, which refer to drugs.
In 2017, the sect was recognized as extremist. Because of this, Chistyakov moved to the United States. He never spoke about his religion at concerts, rarely mentioned it in an interview.
4. John Travolta
For more than 40 years, he has been a supporter of Scientology and still defends this sect. He is sure that people do not understand this teaching, because they didn’t read the main books of Scientology adherents, and she saved him more than once by creating miracles.
But, nevertheless, this faith did not help him save his son. He died in 2009, at the age of 16. He had a rare disease - Kawasaki syndrome, which is now being treated well. But sometimes it gives a complication in the form of epileptic seizures.
But Travolta, like other Scientologists, was against the intervention of doctors. The boy was injured due to an attack of epilepsy, falling to the floor, because of which he later died.
It was said that after this John wanted to leave the sect, but he was not allowed to do this, threatening to publish incriminating materials.
3. Joaquin Phoenix
The Phoenix family was unusual. Parents were hippies. In 1973, they entered the sect "Children of God." She preached a spiritual revolution, urged everyone to fight the system.
As a demonstration of "God's love," her members had sex. They wrote that sectarians encouraged the sex of children, and adult members of the sect sometimes committed violence against teenagers or babies.
The parents of the future star were missionaries, picking fruits. Children used to be tramps to earn a piece of bread, they sang in the streets.
In 1979, after the birth of 5 children, they finally changed their minds. Having changed his surname to Phoenix, the family moved to Los Angeles, the adults got a job and started teaching children.
2. Igor Sorin
When Igor Sorin died, there were many versions of what happened: drugs, an accident, suicide. Igor Matvienko said that Sorin was always interested in occultism. He could die, because came under the influence of the Reiki Caduceus sect, which he sometimes visited.
1. Michelle Pfeiffer
When the actress was 20 years old, and she just moved to Hollywood, the girl met one couple. These were people from the sect of "sun-eaters". They began to control her every move, forced to give them all the money.
Sectarians were sure that at a certain stage of development, people can only eat air and sun. Such a "diet" could easily lead to the death of Michelle.
But her future husband Peter Horton at that time was preparing to shoot a film about the sect and met one of its members. The girl realized that in communicating with her, “personal consultants” use the same manipulation techniques as other sectarians.