Rebekah Vardy reveals she was sexually abused aged 12 – and accuses her Jehovah’s Witness church of a ‘hush-up’
According to her, every aspect of her life was controlled by the elders, who had the power to cast people out of the community.
"At school we used to get dragged out of assembly because we couldn't sing the hymns or be present for any reference to religion, to Christian beliefs. She recalled: "I thought there was something wrong with me, that I was disgusting, that I'd done something wrong.", where she says the abuse began and continued for three years.
She has not spoken to her mother in over seven years and does not know if she is still in the JW community, but her father and sister have left.
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