Why We Infiltrated & TOOK DOWN FLDS Polygamous Cult Leader (My Story) [11:52-16:59]

desperate for. But I look at the people who believe in him now and he's doing the same thing to them when they figure out this isn't right, this isn't making sense. He does a whole shift comes up with a way to explain the past. Didn't he also position himself as a spiritual authority within the Mormon church? He did. So I thought it all had the blessing of the mainstream Mormon church which I loved and believed in. I was not looking for something new as far as a relationship goes. I would have never been interested in this man. I was dating some incredible men who were funny and handsome and successful and kind and you know, I did not need another person to date. And he was at the bottom, he would have been at the bottom of the list had we just like met. So he had to one up him somehow until he became, you know, my highest priority path then was living my religion. So he had become at the top of my religion. And he presented himself as a real authority in my church like the church had approved him doing this translation thing. So in the beginning he had the disguise of righteousness, you know, always talked about health and the poor needy and what Christ would really do. And it was hard for me to imagine that somebody who taught such good things that I believed in because I haven't wanted to help before me. Yeah. So he, you know, harvested information about my values while we were in this dating process. And then he used all that within the context of my religious beliefs to come in until he had complete control over me. Right. And are you comfortable talking about how he propositioned you almost similar to the way Joseph Smith did? He had been a plugumist. And I believed that the way to be the best woman you could believe, I believed that in order to be the very best woman I could be, I had to be open to polygamy because in that time there was talk in the women's groups about polygamy's going to come back someday. So I was preparing for whether I could handle it. And I was actually open to the idea back then. When my husband, when, you know, my original husband, he was, he worked for the CIA and he was gone so much like 50% of the time I think. And I remember thinking, wow, my sister, why would I be so lonely? You know, my brain was kind of frapped for believing in polygamy. And then he brought me into this mindset that he was going to be bringing polygamy back on the earth. And I was supposed to help him. And it was only later that I learned that after I thought I was his first wife that, you know, he introduced another woman. Yeah, that's a whole story. Did he marry legally or was it just like a spiritual marriage? It's a spiritual marriage, but it was very deceptive because he had said to me that when we consummate, that would be how we became married just like in the biblical days when they used the term no, like if a man knew his wife that meant they conceived or they consummated. So he told me that that would be when I would be sealed him for time and all eternity. And before that happened, I said to him, promise me, you're not deceiving me just so you could sleep with me. And I looked up straight in the eyes and he looked me back straight in the eyes and didn't even flinch. And he said, oh, how I wish I was deceiving you. You know, this has been such a difficult calling for me. He had all the right body language, you know, and he swore on his soul that he was telling me the truth. So I believed I was his wife, you know, his spiritual wife, although he now says, I never married Christine. She was desperate to be married to me. She was trying, you know, all these things that a con artist, that gas lights and that has a predatory on nature wouldn't say to make sure that people don't believe me. Yeah. It's followers. I think might be a little confused by the docuseries because what is in there is true. And it doesn't match what he has told them. So I see he's now doing a push, another push to discredit me, paint me as someone I'm not, because he has to do damage control. Otherwise, where would his money source go? Where was your family in this? Did they also convert to Mormonism? And did you let them in on