Bek Condello

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You’re Gonna Want To Hear This · Robbed Of Her Childhood: Bek Condello On Escaping A Cult · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

And I think I would have thrived in school.

I'm a very social person, but instead I became so incredibly...

painfully shy as a child and would cry if someone talked to me and I think I would have had such a different experience of life at school.

Yeah.

There's not a lot I have any regrets about, you know, there's no, to me, there's no point like looking in the past, but I do feel like that's the one sadness I still carry that I feel like I was robbed of a childhood and I was robbed of my twenties and just like so many rites of passage things, you know, just having birthday parties and sleepovers.

And when I was at school, I could never go on like a school camp or go to

my form or, yeah, hang out with my friends in the school holidays.

So I ended up just being a really lonely kid.

And then as I grew up, I remember when I was going to Sunday school as a little kid, we would have three classes, Sunday school classes, because there were so many kids.

And then as I started to get older...

Either families would leave the cult and take their kids with them and you would just never see or speak to them ever again.

Or kids would leave as they became teenagers.

They would rebel and run away and again never see or speak to them ever again.

It was like they just died.

Or girls would grow up and get married and move to another city to be with their husband.

And so by the time I was in my late teens, I had no friends left and I couldn't be friends with anyone on the outside.

And so I was just super painfully lonely.

Yeah.

So I felt like I never really got to be – I never got to like try out makeup with my friends or, you know.

Just all the things, like the girly things.

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