Rose McGowan: How She Survived and Escaped a Cult
Rose McGowan’s first nine years were anything but traditional.
They were spent in the Children of God sect, a group that extolled the virtues of free love and prepared for the second coming of Jesus.Although it proved a harrowing experience – she fled with her family, she says, once the cult began advocating child-adult sexual relations – as the setting at first “was really idyllic,” remembers the actress, 38, who rose to fame on TV’s Charmed and now stars in Conan the Barbarian 3D.“I grew up in pastoral settings” – specifically, the Italian countryside, where her parents were members of
