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Michael Douglas, an actor known for films like Traffic and Ant-Man, revealed during an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience that he was threatened with death by a cult that tried to recruit him.
According to Fox News, the Hollywood star recounted that the members of the group invited him to dinner with the intention of creating an emotional moment that would bring him closer to the community.
However, the situation changed when they reached dessert, because, as he recounted, the members of the group threatened him with death.
"We got to dessert and they said: ‘We’ve been trying to reach you, but you just don’t get it. You don’t get it. So you’re going to have to be eliminated’,” he confessed.
The 82-year-old actor explained that the threat was related to his refusal to join the community.
“They wanted… me to join, to surrender, to be a part of it,” he detailed.
"They were going to kill me. I remember there was a long silence, and I said, 'Well, you've already done it, haven't you?'. And they said, 'Yes'... and there was a huge, long pause. My girlfriend started to fall apart, wetting her pants and all that," he added.
The actor said that he finally decided to leave and the members of the group allowed him to.
“So I said, ‘I’m leaving now,’ and they replied, ‘Yes, you’d better.’"
Although he managed to get out of the place, Douglas felt that any sudden movement could have put his life in danger.
Likewise, he described the experience as a strange moment that left him paralyzed.
"It's strange. I've never had many experiences like that, but there is a numbness… It's like a total numbness comes over you, or at least that's what happened to me. I just went numb," he said.
The actor explained that after that experience, he called the police to alert them to what had happened.
Which cult threatened Michael Douglas with death?
Michael Douglas identified the group that threatened him as the Fort Hill Community, founded in 1966 by the American musician and writer Mel Lyman.
In 1997, Rolling Stone published an article titled The Lyman Family's Holy Siege of America, where it revealed the practices of manipulation, submission, and mind control that Lyman exerted over the members, based on testimonies from people who had left the community.
According to the publication, Lyman considered himself a messiah or the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and demanded worship and submission from the members of the group. Likewise, he completely controlled their lives.
The article also described an internal structure marked by chauvinism, since Lyman considered women inferior and their roles within the commune were reduced to housework and childcare.
Likewise, the investigation noted that within the community, manipulation mechanisms and psychological punishments were used to limit the individuality and critical thinking of its members.
According to the testimonies collected by the magazine, Lyman also supplied substances such as LSD and other hallucinogenic compounds to the members of the group to exercise control over them.
The publication also exposed practices of labor and economic exploitation, through which members had to hand over their resources and abandon their careers.
Finally, the article pointed out that members were taught to reject external society, as they considered it "corrupt and degenerate." In this way, he isolated them from their relatives, so they could not seek help.
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