Glenn Close Says She Relied on Her 'Active Imagination' as a Child While Growing Up in a Cult-Like Religious Group

Glenn Close is opening up about her unconventional childhood.

The actress, 77, said in a Jan. 19 broadcast of Today’s Sunday Sitdown that she relied on her "active imagination" while growing up in a cult-like religious group.

Close spent her childhood as a member of the Moral Re-Armament, founded by Rev. Frank Buchman, who believed people could avoid war if they experienced a moral transformation. The Moral Re-Armament largely died out when Buchman passed away in 1961, and his successor Peter Howard four years later.

The actress, born in Connecticut, was moved to Switzerland at a young age to be raised near the group's headquarters.

Now, she has told anchor Willie Geist how she resisted the ideology.

"I'm still working it out," Close said. "From a very early age, when we were running feral in the Connecticut countryside, I always had an incredibly active imagination."

She continued, "I could take myself out of situations sometimes with my imagination, and not let it get into me as deep as it might have. I think that's what literally kept me on course of doing what I wanted to do at a very early age, which was be an actress."

In 2018, the Emmy winner told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview that she once resented her father for getting the family involved with the group, but has learned to understand why her parents were susceptible to the indoctrination.

Close, ultimately, left Moral Re-Armament at age 22 while she was studying acting in college.

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"I’ve learned more and more about them and more about what their situation was and how vulnerable they were at certain times," she previously told PEOPLE. "I think I really understand why they were so vulnerable to a group like that. Not knowing the devastation that it would cause their children."

The actress, once again, spoke about her upbringing in the 2021 Apple TV+ docuseries The Me You Can't See and said that her time in the group impacted her ability to have lasting relationships.

"Because of the devastation, emotional and psychological of the cult, I have not been successful in my relationships and finding a permanent partner and I am sorry about that," she said. "I think it is our natural state to be connected like that. I don't think you ever change your trigger points, but at least you can be aware of them and maybe avoid situations that might make you vulnerable, especially in relationships."

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In a January appearance on the The Drew Barrymore Show to promote her new movie Back in Action, Close told host Drew Barrymore that she feels happy without a romantic relationship in her life – more than nine years after her amicable split with ex-husband David Shaw.

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When asked if she has been in a relationship since the divorce, she answered "no."

"I don't know. I mean, I'm always up for anything, but I'm very happy right now," Close said, adding that she has not yet tried dating apps.

"No, I'm too shy to do that," she explained. "I'm not searching. Because I'm actually — I'm not a hugely comfortably social person, so I don't leap to go to a party at all. So yeah, I'm okay."

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