Ashleigh Freckleton

They wouldn't just release me because I was in a foreign country.

I didn't speak the language.

I'd been blindfolded on my way to the house, so I didn't know where I was.

There were also high locked gates.

I don't know if the house was also locked.

And they had all of my belongings.

Yeah.

Well, it was becoming really clear to me that that was very likely going to happen, even though they said to me, no, he will never make you do anything that you don't want to do.

He would never do that to you.

And so they're telling me that there are women that go and just talk to him.

There are women that don't go through the initiation, but I wasn't seeing any.

I hadn't met a single woman there who hadn't gone through it.

And what really stuck with me was this woman that I met.

And they had been telling me, he will never make you do anything you don't want to do.

And I was talking to her and I said, how was it?

You know, she'd just come back from seeing him for the second time.

And she said, oh, yeah, you know, I was the first time I came to see him.

I was crying.

I was sitting in front of him and I said, this is crazy.

I don't want to do this.