Ella Al-Shamahi

I was hysterically crying.

I was just so, so distraught.

And the reason I was so distraught at this point was that I knew that meant I was going to have to leave my world.

I had no idea what was going to happen with my family.

Because, you know, it hadn't happened in my family before it.

But what I did know is it was going to drive a massive wedge.

Because it's such an extreme thing in my world...

and say that you believe in evolution and um you know that's just we just didn't do that and by the way all cases where that did happen like let me tell you loads of those girls got cut off um thank god my siblings came through in the way that they did um how did they come through they decided to embrace me regardless um they decided that i was their sister regardless makes me want to cry

I didn't tell people.

I just disappeared.

I didn't tell people.

You just ghosted people?

Yeah.

I literally just disappeared.

And that's because I was a missionary and I knew the training.

And the training is if somebody, you know, falls, you go collect them, basically.

And I did not have the energy.

And also, this is the strange thing.

I didn't want anyone else to follow me because I didn't want them to go through what I was going through.

I was like, no, you know what?