UNITED STATES
Daily Mail
Physically abused, told they would die at 12 and banned from school: ‘Real-life Kimmy Schmidt’ twins reveal what life was like inside controversial Children of God sect
As children growing up in a controversial religious sect, they spent every day ‘paralyzed by fear’.
They were physically abused, banned from school and told they would die as martyrs aged 12.
But now, twin sisters Flor and Tamar Edwards, 34, have escaped from The Children of God cult and are both living and working in California – one as a freelance writer, the other as a yoga teacher.
They have opened up to ABC’s Nightline about their lives inside the sect – which blended free love attitudes with preparing for the second coming of Jesus – and their transition to the outside world.
‘I didn’t know what a movie theater was,’ said Flor, who along with her sister has compared their situation to that of the lead female character in the Netflix show, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
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