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Forget The Handmaid’s Tale, this real-life Kiwi cult is even creepier

February 17, 2025: | Daily Mail | Christopher Stevens | Liz Gregory likes to call herself ‘the Devil’. A committed Christian, she has devoted her life to helping refugees from a cult, whose…

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‘Real Handmaid’s tale’ community that forced young girls to watch their parents have sex

February 17, 2025: | Lad Bible | Michael Slavin | The community has been exposed in a new documentary called Escaping Utopia Warning: The following article contains discussion of child sex abuse that…

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Hell on Earth

February 16, 2025: | The Irish Sun | Jim Mahoney | We were made to watch our parents have sex & abused from 7 in cult run by ‘shepherds’ who performed sick marriage…

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Escaping Utopia, review: a refreshingly old-fashioned documentary about a disturbing cult

February 16, 2025: | The Telegraph | Anita Singh | Netflix transformed the documentary genre so profoundly that it feels unusual to come across something made in the old style. Escaping Utopia (BBC Two) doesn’t…

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Escaping Utopia review – there’s so much terrible detail about this cult it barely fits into the show

February 16, 2025: | The Guardian | Lucy Mangan | Escapers from the Gloriavale sect open up about living in constant fear of damnation, its abuse of women – and a landmark court…

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BBC Picks Up New Zealand Cult Doc ‘Escaping Utopia’

October 31, 2024: | Deadline | Max Goldbart, Jesse Whittock | The BBC has picked up a premium doc series on a group of people’s clandestine escape from a New Zealand cult. Escaping Utopia is…

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Escaping Utopia – Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust – Decult

October 10, 2024: | Banana Island Films | In this special episode of the Decult Takeover Series, I’m joined by Liz Gregory, the founder of the Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust, who plays a…

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Escaping Utopia – Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust – Decult

October 3, 2024: | Banana Island Films | Interviewee in the new film Escaping Utopia – and founder of Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust joined me in the Decult Takeover series for the ramp…

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Leavers’ Feedback on the DocuSeries – Escaping Utopia

April 19, 2024: Opinion piece: Liz Gregory. (Thoughts, opinions and views expressed here belong to Liz Gregory and may or may not represent the views of all leavers, current members or the Trust).…

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Podcast Dissection of the Gloriavale DocuSeries – Escaping Utopia

April 19, 2024: Opinion piece: Liz Gregory. (Thoughts, opinions and views expressed here belong to Liz Gregory and may or may not represent the views of all leavers, current members or the Trust).…

Forget The Handmaid’s Tale, this real-life Kiwi cult is even creepier

‘Real Handmaid’s tale’ community that forced young girls to watch their parents have sex

Hell on Earth

Escaping Utopia, review: a refreshingly old-fashioned documentary about a disturbing cult

Escaping Utopia review – there’s so much terrible detail about this cult it barely fits into the show

BBC Picks Up New Zealand Cult Doc ‘Escaping Utopia’

Escaping Utopia – Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust – Decult

Escaping Utopia – Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust – Decult

Leavers’ Feedback on the DocuSeries – Escaping Utopia

Podcast Dissection of the Gloriavale DocuSeries – Escaping Utopia

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