Prior to landing roles inFatal Attraction,DamagesandThe Shield,Glenn Closespent her childhood as a member of acult-like religious groupcalled the Moral Re-Armament.
The Moral Re-Armament largely died out when Buchman passed away in 1961, and his successor Peter Howard four years later.
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Though the actress admits there was a time when she resented her father deeply.
“There came a point where I got very, very angry at my father and I wrote him this letter where I was absolutely honest with [him],” she recalls. “I said, ‘You don’t deserve to be called our father.’ I mean, it was so harsh. In fact, I read it to my mother and I read it to my siblings and I said, ‘I’m just going to send this to dad,’ because he was a narcissist and he was brilliant, brilliant, but he definitely had a dollop of narcissism.”
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Close also believes her mother had a role in her strained relationship with her dad growing up. “I think in many ways my mom enabled him,” the six-time Oscar nominee continues. “She never developed her, where she was brilliant, to the point where she said to me, near the end of her life, ‘I feel like I haven’t achieved anything.’ ”
Now, Close claims she understands how her parents became who they were at the time they entered the Moral Re-Armament.
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“I’ve learned more and more about them and more about what their situation was and how vulnerable they were at certain times,” she says. “I think I really understand why they were so vulnerable to a group like that. Not knowing the devastation that it would cause their children.”
The Wifehits theaters Aug. 17.
source: people.com
