Send us Fan Mail Please enjoy Part 1 of our mini-series, “Thought I Was Going to College, Ended Up In A Cult: Part 1 - Irene's Story ” From being forbidden to leave her dorm as an adult simply because she was a woman, to being abandoned on the freezing streets of Chicago by a bus driver, to not even being allowed to leave campus to buy basic necessities like pads—this is just the beginning of Irene’s story. She’s opening up about what it was like to be raised in a cult, how deeply people can ...